Renewable Energies—Recent Advances in Energy Harvesting

Dear colleagues,

Energy harvesting and renewable energy technologies have gained tremendous interest during the last decade due to their ability to provide clean and sustainable energy. While energy harvesting technologies are focused on feeding low-power electronic devices, renewable energy technologies can generate large volumes of electrical energy for industrial and household needs. Scientific communities and multidisciplinary industries are coming forward to enhance these domains from various sources as well as to improve the overall systems for prototyping and commercialization. This allows us to reduce the dependency on precious fossil fuels and increase the use of alternative energies. Current energy harvesting technology is principally targeted to power electrical and electronic devices that possess low energy requirements. Therefore, miniaturized energy harvesting concepts and experimental validations are exemplified in the literature. This shows a growing interest in scavenging otherwise wasted energy from the ambient environment to provide a limitless source of low-level power for these devices.

This Special Issue aims to receive original research and review articles on the state-of-the-art research activities as well as novel ideas on renewable energy with an emphasis on energy harvesting. Unique and multidisciplinary aspects of energy harvesting starting with a novel idea/concept generation to the realization of the systems will be considered.

Prof. Riaz Ahmed
Prof. Sourav Banerjee
Dr. Hossain Ahmed
Guest Editors

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• Energy-harvesting technologies
• Multifunctional energy-harvesting systems
• Energy storage
• Energy-harvesting materials
• Energy-harvesting system optimization
• Novel applications of energy harvesting
• Renewable energy technologies