Recent Advances in Functional Materials for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Potential Applications
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Advanced Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 May 2024 | Viewed by 234
Special Issue Editors
2. Laboratory of Electromechanical Systems (LASEM), University of Sfax, National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia
Interests: piezoelectric energy; nanogenerators; nanocomposites; energy harvesting
Interests: energy harvesting; nanocompsoites; design of sensors and sensors systems; impedance spectroscopy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The current global energy crisis and environmental pollutions have put pressure on scientists to accelerate the rollout of cleaner and more sustainable renewable energy that can be available in the ambient environment. Mechanical energy is the most abundant ambient energy source that can be converted into useful electric power. The piezoelectric transduction mechanism is the prominent mechanical energy-harvesting mechanism owing to its high electromechanical coupling factor and piezoelectric coefficient compared to electrostatic, electromagnetic, and triboelectric transductions. Therefore, piezoelectric energy harvesting has received extensive interest scientist.
In the last decade, extensive progress in the direction of micro and nanoscale materials and manufacturing processes has been witnessed, enabling the fabrication of piezoelectric generators with remarkable and exceptional features such as enhanced electromechanical coupling factor, piezoelectric coefficient, flexibility, stretchability, and integrability for diverse applications.
In particular, the fabrication of energy harvesting with flexible structures has recently become a hot research topic. Up to now, numerous researchers have utilized different functional materials such as perovskite ferroelectric structures embedded within a polymer matrix.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present the most recent advances in functional materials to improve extant models of energy harvester, develop piezoelectric energy harvesters with exceptional features, and present interesting applications for piezoelectric energy harvesters.
It is our honor to announce the launch of this Special Issue of Energies, entitled “Recent Advances in Functional Materials for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Potential Applications”, and cordially invite all researchers working in relevant fields to contribute their review and research reports.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Piezoelectric energy harvesters
- Piezoelectric nanogenerators
- Functional materials for piezoelectric energy harvesting
- Polymer nanocomposite based piezoelectric energy harvesting
- Biocompatible energy harvesters
- Energy management for low-power piezoelectric energy harvesters
- Application of energy harvesting
Dr. Ayda Bouhamed
Prof. Dr. Olfa Kanoun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- piezoelectric energy harvesters
- nanogenerators
- perovskite materials
- functional materials for piezoelectric energy harvesting
- polymer nanocomposite based piezoelectric energy harvesting
- biocompatible energy harvesters
