Recent Progress in the Energy Harvesting Technology—From Self-Powered Sensors to Self-Sustained IoT, and New Applications

With the fast development of energy harvesting technology, micro-nano or scale-up energy harvesters have been proposed to allow sensors or internet of things (IoT) applications with self-powered or self-sustained capabilities. Facilitation within smart homes, manipulators in industries and monitorin...

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Autores principales: Long Liu, Xinge Guo, Weixin Liu, Chengkuo Lee
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1fe579a12884449aa922543d60f544182021-11-25T18:31:19ZRecent Progress in the Energy Harvesting Technology—From Self-Powered Sensors to Self-Sustained IoT, and New Applications10.3390/nano111129752079-4991https://doaj.org/article/1fe579a12884449aa922543d60f544182021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/11/2975https://doaj.org/toc/2079-4991With the fast development of energy harvesting technology, micro-nano or scale-up energy harvesters have been proposed to allow sensors or internet of things (IoT) applications with self-powered or self-sustained capabilities. Facilitation within smart homes, manipulators in industries and monitoring systems in natural settings are all moving toward intellectually adaptable and energy-saving advances by converting distributed energies across diverse situations. The updated developments of major applications powered by improved energy harvesters are highlighted in this review. To begin, we study the evolution of energy harvesting technologies from fundamentals to various materials. Secondly, self-powered sensors and self-sustained IoT applications are discussed regarding current strategies for energy harvesting and sensing. Third, subdivided classifications investigate typical and new applications for smart homes, gas sensing, human monitoring, robotics, transportation, blue energy, aircraft, and aerospace. Lastly, the prospects of smart cities in the 5G era are discussed and summarized, along with research and application directions that have emerged.Long LiuXinge GuoWeixin LiuChengkuo LeeMDPI AGarticleenergy harvester (EH)self-powered sensorinternet of things (IoT)triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG)ChemistryQD1-999ENNanomaterials, Vol 11, Iss 2975, p 2975 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic energy harvester (EH)
self-powered sensor
internet of things (IoT)
triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)
piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG)
Chemistry
QD1-999
spellingShingle energy harvester (EH)
self-powered sensor
internet of things (IoT)
triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)
piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG)
Chemistry
QD1-999
Long Liu
Xinge Guo
Weixin Liu
Chengkuo Lee
Recent Progress in the Energy Harvesting Technology—From Self-Powered Sensors to Self-Sustained IoT, and New Applications
description With the fast development of energy harvesting technology, micro-nano or scale-up energy harvesters have been proposed to allow sensors or internet of things (IoT) applications with self-powered or self-sustained capabilities. Facilitation within smart homes, manipulators in industries and monitoring systems in natural settings are all moving toward intellectually adaptable and energy-saving advances by converting distributed energies across diverse situations. The updated developments of major applications powered by improved energy harvesters are highlighted in this review. To begin, we study the evolution of energy harvesting technologies from fundamentals to various materials. Secondly, self-powered sensors and self-sustained IoT applications are discussed regarding current strategies for energy harvesting and sensing. Third, subdivided classifications investigate typical and new applications for smart homes, gas sensing, human monitoring, robotics, transportation, blue energy, aircraft, and aerospace. Lastly, the prospects of smart cities in the 5G era are discussed and summarized, along with research and application directions that have emerged.
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author Long Liu
Xinge Guo
Weixin Liu
Chengkuo Lee
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Xinge Guo
Weixin Liu
Chengkuo Lee
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title Recent Progress in the Energy Harvesting Technology—From Self-Powered Sensors to Self-Sustained IoT, and New Applications
title_short Recent Progress in the Energy Harvesting Technology—From Self-Powered Sensors to Self-Sustained IoT, and New Applications
title_full Recent Progress in the Energy Harvesting Technology—From Self-Powered Sensors to Self-Sustained IoT, and New Applications
title_fullStr Recent Progress in the Energy Harvesting Technology—From Self-Powered Sensors to Self-Sustained IoT, and New Applications
title_full_unstemmed Recent Progress in the Energy Harvesting Technology—From Self-Powered Sensors to Self-Sustained IoT, and New Applications
title_sort recent progress in the energy harvesting technology—from self-powered sensors to self-sustained iot, and new applications
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