Future Prospects of Energy Harvesting Technologies
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 1288
Special Issue Editor
Interests: self-powered sensor; energy harvesting; flexible sensor; intelligent sensing
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Dear Colleagues,
Trillions of sensors are envisioned with pervasive interconnection as the cornerstone of the modern Internet of Things (IoT), supporting the digital links that can monitor every aspect of human lives reliably and autonomously. The search for long-term, stable, and maintenance-free energy supply for paving these sensors encounters a bottleneck, when the deficiencies of conventional battery-based ways have been gradually exposed in the aspects of limited lifetime, risk of environmental pollution, and low device maintainability. Recently emerged energy harvesting technologies such as micro-electromagnetic generators (micro-EMG), piezoelectric generators (PEG), thermoelectric generators (TEG), and triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) have shown potential in building a self-powered system and realizing a stable energy supply, enlightening the novel shape of IoT sensors with the features of low consumption and disordered distribution that could be powered by utilizing the eco-friendly and sustainable ambient energy harvesting technology. For purposes of broad applications, the self-powered system needs to be advanced in the aspects of electrical and mechanical performance, miniaturization, durability, as well as biocompatibility, in which not only the topology structure, material modification, performance modulation, and integration strategy, but also the fabrication process, package manufacturing and practical verification should be paid more attention. Therefore, developing a system that can produce more energy harvesting efficiency while being compatible with portable and low-power embedded sensors is expected to bring IoT sensor systems to more broad applications.
Dr. Jiyu Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- self-powered sensor
- energy harvesting
- flexible sensor
- intelligent sensing
- functional nanomaterials
- nano-energy device
- nanomaterials fabrication and characterization
