Advance in Energy Harvesters/Nanogenerators and Self-Powered Sensors
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 43177
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Interests: energy harvesting; self-powered electronics; wearable electronics; MEMS; sensors
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Interests: human interface sensor; self-powered sensor; wearable sensor; digital twin; data confusion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of the information industry and 5G networks, self-sustained devices and systems could dramatically benefit from energy-harvesting technologies (piezoelectric, triboelectric, electromagnetic, thermoelectric, pyroelectric, photovoltaic, etc.). In the past few years, energy-harvesting technologies have received significant research efforts from numerous research groups across the world, leading to in-depth innovation and rapid advancement in the field. Other than the development into energy harvesters and power sources, energy-harvesting technologies can also be adopted to develop diversified self-powered devices, ranging from physical sensors, chemical sensors, and IoT sensor nodes, all the way to functional interfaces, actuators, etc. Enabled by the innovative energy harvesters and self-powered devices, self-sustained and functional systems could eventually be realized, rendering a large variety of promising applications in the new era, such as smart homes, sports training, health care, medical rehabilitation, robotics, entertainment, and machine-learning-assisted intelligent systems for greater convenience of human life.
This Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers and review articles in this field and welcomes contributions devoted to the design, fabrication, characterization, integration, and application of energy harvesters, nanogenerators, and self-powered sensors and systems, with particular interest in flexible, wearable, and implantable technologies; human–machine interface; IoT; machine learning; big data; and other applications.
Dr. Qiongfeng Shi
Dr. Jianxiong Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Energy harvesters
- Piezoelectric nanogenerator
- Triboelectric nanogenerator
- Pyroelectric nanogenerator
- Thermoelectric generator
- Electromagnetic generator
- Power management
- Self-powered sensors
- Self-powered systems
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