Mechanical intelligent energy harvesting: from methodology to applications

LC Zhao, HX Zou, KX Wei, SX Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) connects everything with intelligence,
while the increase in energy consumption generated by numerous electronic devices puts …

Multistable vibration energy harvesters: Principle, progress, and perspectives

S Zhou, M Lallart, A Erturk - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2022 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesting is a process by which ambient mechanical energy from
environment or host structures is converted into usable energy (usually, but not always …

Ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, enhancement techniques, and scaling laws

R Sun, S Zhou, L Cheng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

Rotational energy harvesting for self-powered sensing

H Fu, X Mei, D Yurchenko, S Zhou, S Theodossiades… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Advances in wireless sensors, biomedical devices, and micro-robotics exert more pressure
on creating reliable, miniaturized, and self-sustained energy supply solutions for these micro …

Piezoelectric energy harvester for rolling bearings with capability of self-powered condition monitoring

L Zhang, F Zhang, Z Qin, Q Han, T Wang, F Chu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Rotational energy harvesting for powering low-power electronic devices and wireless
sensors has attracted increasing attention in recent years. This paper proposes an energy …

Development trends and perspectives of future sensors and MEMS/NEMS

J Zhu, X Liu, Q Shi, T He, Z Sun, X Guo, W Liu… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
With the fast development of the fifth-generation cellular network technology (5G), the future
sensors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)/nanoelectromechanical systems …

Mechanical modulations for enhancing energy harvesting: Principles, methods and applications

HX Zou, LC Zhao, QH Gao, L Zuo, FR Liu, T Tan… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Mechanical kinetic energy harvesting, which converts the mechanical motions and
vibrations that are commonly available in the surrounding environment to electrical energy …

Micro electrostatic energy harvester with both broad bandwidth and high normalized power density

Y Zhang, T Wang, A Luo, Y Hu, X Li, F Wang - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, an electrostatic vibration energy harvester is proposed and fabricated with both
broad bandwidth and high normalized power density (NPD, harvested power/volume …

A comprehensive review on self-powered smart bearings

Y Zhang, W Wang, X Wu, Y Lei, J Cao, C Bowen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, with the development of industrial informatization and intellectualization, the
development of smart bearings has attracted a lot of significant attention in an attempt to …

Acoustic-elastic metamaterials and phononic crystals for energy harvesting: A review

G Hu, L Tang, J Liang, C Lan… - Smart Materials and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Metamaterials and phononic crystals (PCs) with artificially designed periodic microstructures
have attracted increasing research interests due to their unique properties that cannot be …