Focus on advanced materials for energy harvesting: prospects and approaches of energy harvesting technologies

Energy materials: supramolecular nanoparticles for solar energy harvesting

Renewable resource of carbon-free energy is crucial in the current scenario of global warming and our growing energy needs. Besides, the significance of safer energy resources has been underscored by many nuclear mishaps, including the recently crippled Fukushima Nuclear power plant in Japan. Sunlight is the most promising alternative to nuclear fuels and greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil and alco...

Energy Harvesting Technologies: Thick-Film Piezoelectric Microgenerator

Metal-organic framework materials for light-harvesting and energy transfer.

A critical review of the emerging field of MOFs for photon collection and subsequent energy transfer is presented. Discussed are examples involving MOFs for (a) light harvesting, using (i) MOF-quantum dots and molecular chromophores, (ii) chromophoric MOFs, and (iii) MOFs with light-harvesting properties, and (b) energy transfer, specifically via the (i) Förster energy transfer and (ii) Dexter ...

Review of Energy Harvesting Technologies for Sustainable Wireless Sensor Network

The rapid growth in demands for computing everywhere has made computer a pivotal component of human mankind daily lives. Whether we use the computers to gather information from the Web, to utilize them for entertainment purposes or to use them for running businesses, computers are noticeably becoming more widespread, mobile and smaller in size. What we often overlook and did not notice is the p...

A New Energy Harvesting Design Concept: Multimodal Energy Harvesting Skin

This paper proposes an advanced design concept for a piezoelectric energy harvesting (EH) device, multimodal EH skin structure, a thin and compact harvester which can generate power from multimodal vibration. Multimodal EH skin is an extended study of our previous works, EH skin, which is a new conceptual design for piezoelectric energy harvester by combining a vibrating skin structure and an a...