Biomechanical Energy Harvesting: Materials, Methods and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2907
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanics and modeling of smart materials and structures
Interests: nonlinear vibration; vibration control; surface and interface mechanics; MEMS/NEMS; vibration energy harvesting
Interests: seismic design; fatigue of steel structural component; dynamic analysis of bridges; smart sensing technologies; AI based identification of structural parameters
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Dear Colleagues,
Biomechanical energy harvesting, which refers to harvest mechanical energy from motions of bio-organs in daily activities, has been widely explored in recent years due to its potential to provide electricity for implanted medical devices and wearable electronics. To date, various elaborately designed human-friendly energy harvesters with high flexibility and biocompatibility has been fabricated to harvest biomechanical energy from limb and organ movements. Currently, novel materials with breakthrough fabrication methods have been proposed with tremendous enthusiasm for emerging applications. This special issue aims to collect latest original research or review articles on materials, methods and applications in biomechanical energy harvesting to instantiate recent trends and challenges on this topic. Interests of the special issue cover across a broad range of biomechanical energy sources including walking, arm swinging, cardiac motion, respiration and blood circulation etc. Specially, the following topics, but not limited to, are sought.
- Novel materials for biomechanical energy harvesting
- Piezoelectric/pyroelectric energy harvesting
- Triboelectric energy harvesting
- Electromagnetic energy harvesting
- Bio-inspired energy harvesting
- Energy harvesting for implantable medical devices
- Energy harvesting for wearable sensors
- Experiments, modelling or computations in biomechanical energy harvesting
Prof. Dr. Chaofeng LÜ
Prof. Dr. Wen-Ming Zhang
Prof. Dr. He Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomechanical energy harvesting
- biomedical application
- implantable devices
- wearable electronics
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