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 …

A review of flow-induced vibration energy harvesters

X Ma, S Zhou - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of wireless sensor networks, medical equipment, and
microelectromechanical systems, providing clean and self-sustained energy for these …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Energy harvesting solutions for railway transportation: A comprehensive review

J Zuo, L Dong, F Yang, Z Guo, T Wang, L Zuo - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Railways, as one of the most important forms of transportation, have been developed rapidly
throughout the world. Meanwhile, the energy consumption and carbon emissions of railway …

[HTML][HTML] Bistable morphing composites for energy-harvesting applications

A Elsheikh - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bistable morphing composites have shown promising applications in energy harvesting due
to their capabilities to change their shape and maintain two different states without any …

3-DOF X-structured piezoelectric harvesters for multidirectional low-frequency vibration energy harvesting

MAA Abdelkareem, X **g, ABM Eldaly… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nonlinear energy harvesters with specially-designed nonlinear characteristics (eg, quasi-
zero stiffness, multi-stability, and internal resonance) have been extensively studied to …

Towards real-time self-powered sensing with ample redundant charges by a piezostack-based frequency-converted generator from human motions

Z Li, X Peng, G Hu, D Zhang, Z Xu, Y Peng… - Energy conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a piezostack-based frequency up-converting generator for scavenging
ultra-low frequency (lower than 5 Hz) vibration energy associated with human motion. The …

[HTML][HTML] A graded metamaterial for broadband and high-capability piezoelectric energy harvesting

B Zhao, HR Thomsen, JM De Ponti, E Riva… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work proposes a graded metamaterial-based energy harvester integrating the
piezoelectric energy harvesting function targeting low-frequency ambient vibrations (< 100 …