Issue 47, 2011

Recent advances in power generation through piezoelectric nanogenerators

Abstract

Piezoelectric nanogenerators are promising for the miniaturization of power packages and self-powering of nanosystems used in implantable bio-sensing, environmental monitoring, and personal electronics. This paper reviews the importance of nanogenerators as well as the recent advances in power generation through nanogenerators with the power generation mechanism. This paper discusses several research and design efforts that enhanced the power generation to commercialize the nanogenerators not only in nano-systems, but also to power microelectronic devices, such as drive a commercial liquid crystal display, light up the commercial light emitting diode and laser diode. This paper will discuss the future goals that must be achieved to find their way to everyday use.

Graphical abstract: Recent advances in power generation through piezoelectric nanogenerators

Article information

Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
02 Jul 2011
Accepted
01 Sep 2011
First published
07 Oct 2011

J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 18946-18958

Recent advances in power generation through piezoelectric nanogenerators

B. Kumar and S. Kim, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 18946 DOI: 10.1039/C1JM13066H

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Spotlight

Advertisements