Innovative Energy Harvesting
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "L: Energy Sources".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2023) | Viewed by 32858
Special Issue Editors
Interests: piezoelectric energy harvesting; multiphysics systems including electro-elastic couplings; fluid–structure interaction; mechanical metamaterials; vibration and wave control; nonlinear circuits
Interests: smart materials and structures; energy harvesting; simultaneous vibration suppression and energy harvesting; nonlinear dynamics and control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy harvesting is an important and necessary supplement to the main electric grid. The advantage is that these smaller energy-harvesting systems can be located off the main electric grid to supply rural customers or low-power wireless IoT nodes. This Special Issue mainly focuses on innovative piezoelectric energy harvesting. Piezoelectric materials have the advantages of large energy density, strong adaptability, and high conversion efficiency. Energy-harvesting devices based on piezoelectric structures can convert different forms of vibrational energy into electrical energy. This method can not only effectively reduce environmental pollution and achieve green power generation but also realize the independent power supply of medium- and low-power electronic devices. Vibration energy is widespread and is not affected by factors such as geography and time, so it has very wide application prospects and market prospects for energy harvesting. Based on the electromechanical and other multi-physics coupling mechanisms, it is a very important challenge to study how to improve the power-generation efficiency and power of energy-harvesting devices in different application environments.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the theory, design, modelling, and application of all types of innovative energy-harvesting systems.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- All aspects of fluid energy harvesting, ambient-vibration energy harvesting, human-motion energy harvesting, and emerging multi-functional energy harvesting, among others;
- Multi-physics systems for energy harvesting;
- Hybrid piezoelectric energy harvesting;
- Optimal design methodologies;
- Advanced modelling approaches and mechanisms;
- Electromechanical and vibroacoustic analyses;
- Modeling of innovative energy-harvesting systems;
- Novel experiments and applications of energy harvesting;
- Machine-learning-related energy harvesting;
- Rainfall energy harvesting;
- Small hydro energy harvesting.
Dr. Bin Bao
Dr. Shitong Fang
Dr. Jixiao Tao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- piezoelectric energy harvesting
- fluid energy harvesting
- human motion energy harvesting
- multi-functional energy harvesting
- multi-physics systems
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