Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters

L Liu, X Guo, C Lee - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Along with the arrival of the 5G era, sustainable and renewable energy supplies have
become urgent demands towards plentifully distributed devices utilized for constructing …

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 …

Multistability phenomenon in signal processing, energy harvesting, composite structures, and metamaterials: A review

S Fang, S Zhou, D Yurchenko, T Yang… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Multistability is the phenomenon of multiple coexistent stable states, which are highly
sensitive to perturbations, initial conditions, system parameters, etc. Multistability has been …

The state-of-the-art review on energy harvesting from flow-induced vibrations

J Wang, L Geng, L Ding, H Zhu, D Yurchenko - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the currently popular flow-induced vibrations energy harvesting technologies
are reviewed, including numerical and experimental endeavors, and some existing or …

A low-frequency rotational electromagnetic energy harvester using a magnetic plucking mechanism

G Miao, S Fang, S Wang, S Zhou - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from rotational motion, such as vehicle tires and rotational devices,
remains a challenge because of the difficulty of balancing the harvesting frequency range …

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 …

A triboelectric–electromagnetic hybrid nanogenerator with broadband working range for wind energy harvesting and a self-powered wind speed sensor

C Ye, K Dong, J An, J Yi, X Peng, C Ning… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Wind energy plays an increasingly important role in alleviating the shortage of fossil fuel
energy because of the emerging promising technologies such as electromagnetic …

On the use of metasurface for Vortex-Induced vibration suppression or energy harvesting

J Wang, S Sun, L Tang, G Hu, J Liang - Energy conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper explores the use of metasurface in designing an aerodynamic system for
potential vortex-induced vibration (VIV) suppression or energy harvesting. Four kinds of …

A hybrid piezo-dielectric wind energy harvester for high-performance vortex-induced vibration energy harvesting

Z Lai, S Wang, L Zhu, G Zhang, J Wang, K Yang… - … Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel hybrid piezo-dielectric (PD) wind energy harvester, to efficiently
harvest the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) energy from low-speed wind. The hybrid PD …

Hybrid wind energy scavenging by coupling vortex-induced vibrations and gallo**

J Wang, S Gu, C Zhang, G Hu, G Chen, K Yang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a hybrid piezoelectric wind energy scavenger with different cross-
sectioned bluff bodies, to enhance the energy scavenging performance by coupling both the …