Nanotechnology-Enabled Energy Harvesting for Self-Powered Micro-/Nanosystems

Environmental sensors and networks of sensors

(2014) David Sanders   Sensor Review

Progress in Piezotronics and Piezo-Phototronics

(2012) Zhong Lin Wang   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Mn-Doped Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells: A Strategy to Boost Efficiency over 5%

(2012) Pralay K. Santra et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Triboelectric-Generator-Driven Pulse Electrodeposition for Micropatterning

(2012) Guang Zhu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Pyroelectric Nanogenerators for Harvesting Thermoelectric Energy

(2012) Ya Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Transparent Triboelectric Nanogenerators and Self-Powered Pressure Sensors Based on Micropatterned Plastic Films

(2012) Feng-Ru Fan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Broadband Enhancement in Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells Enabled by Nucleated Silver Nanoparticles

(2012) Xi Chen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Flexible triboelectric generator

(2012) Feng-Ru Fan et al.   Nano Energy

Stretchable Ferroelectric Nanoribbons with Wavy Configurations on Elastomeric Substrates

(2011) Xue Feng et al.   ACS Nano

Lead-Free NaNbO3 Nanowires for a High Output Piezoelectric Nanogenerator

(2011) Jong Hoon Jung et al.   ACS Nano

A Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting from a Rotating Tire and its Application as a Self-Powered Pressure/Speed Sensor

(2011) Youfan Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Compact Hybrid Cell Based on a Convoluted Nanowire Structure for Harvesting Solar and Mechanical Energy

(2011) Chen Xu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fundamental Theory of Piezotronics

(2011) Yan Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Single-Fiber-Based Hybridization of Energy Converters and Storage Units Using Graphene as Electrodes

(2011) Joonho Bae et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fiber-Based Hybrid Nanogenerators for/as Self-Powered Systems in Biological Liquid

(2011) Caofeng Pan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Nanowire Solar Cells

(2011) Erik C. Garnett et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Molecular monolayers for conformal, nanoscale doping of InP nanopillar photovoltaics

(2011) Kee Cho et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

A microfluidic microbial fuel cell fabricated by soft lithography

(2011) Fang Qian et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

A novel high-performance photovoltaic–thermoelectric hybrid device

(2011) Ning Wang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Control of naturally coupled piezoelectric and photovoltaic properties for multi-type energy scavengers

(2011) Dukhyun Choi et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Self-powered environmental sensor system driven by nanogenerators

(2011) Minbaek Lee et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

PVDF microbelts for harvesting energy from respiration

(2011) Chengliang Sun et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Stretchable, elastic materials and devices for solar energy conversion

(2011) Darren J. Lipomi et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

High-performance Si microwire photovoltaics

(2011) Michael D. Kelzenberg et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

A 1V 200kS/s 10-bit Successive Approximation ADC for a Sensor Interface

(2011) Ji-Hun EO et al.   IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS

Mimicking the Role of the Antenna in Photosynthetic Photoprotection

(2011) Yuichi Terazono et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Hierarchically Structured Nanotubes

(2011) Meidan Ye et al.   NANO LETTERS

Self-Powered System with Wireless Data Transmission

(2011) Youfan Hu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Dramatic Reduction of Surface Recombination by in Situ Surface Passivation of Silicon Nanowires

(2011) Yaping Dan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Porous PVDF As Effective Sonic Wave Driven Nanogenerators

(2011) SeungNam Cha et al.   NANO LETTERS

Piezotronic Nanowire-Based Resistive Switches As Programmable Electromechanical Memories

(2011) Wenzhuo Wu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Programmable nanowire circuits for nanoprocessors

(2011) Hao Yan et al.   NATURE

High-performance flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators with high thermal concentration

(2011) Daniel Kraemer et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Solution-processed core–shell nanowires for efficient photovoltaic cells

(2011) Jinyao Tang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Multiple exciton generation in nanocrystal quantum dots – controversy, current status and future prospects

(2011) David J. Binks   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Peak External Photocurrent Quantum Efficiency Exceeding 100% via MEG in a Quantum Dot Solar Cell

(2011) O. E. Semonin et al.   SCIENCE

Wafer-Scale Graphene Integrated Circuit

(2011) Y.-M. Lin et al.   SCIENCE

Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells with Cobalt (II/III)-Based Redox Electrolyte Exceed 12 Percent Efficiency

(2011) A. Yella et al.   SCIENCE

Epidermal Electronics

(2011) D.-H. Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Wireless Solar Water Splitting Using Silicon-Based Semiconductors and Earth-Abundant Catalysts

(2011) S. Y. Reece et al.   SCIENCE

Heavily Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots

(2011) D. Mocatta et al.   SCIENCE

Optical-fiber/TiO2-nanowire-arrays hybrid structures with tubular counterelectrode for dye-sensitized solar cell

(2011) Wenxi Guo et al.   Nano Energy

Piezoelectric nanogenerators—Harvesting ambient mechanical energy at the nanometer scale

(2011) Xudong Wang   Nano Energy

Recent progress of one-dimensional ZnO nanostructured solar cells

(2011) Liang Li et al.   Nano Energy

Recent advances in thermoelectric nanocomposites

(2011) Weishu Liu et al.   Nano Energy

Nanopillar photovoltaics: Materials, processes, and devices

(2011) Rehan Kapadia et al.   Nano Energy

Nanomaterials and nanostructures for efficient light absorption and photovoltaics

(2011) Rui Yu et al.   Nano Energy

Hybrid Nanogenerator for Concurrently Harvesting Biomechanical and Biochemical Energy

(2010) Benjamin J. Hansen et al.   ACS Nano

A CdSe Nanowire/Quantum Dot Hybrid Architecture for Improving Solar Cell Performance

(2010) Yanghai Yu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Nanostructures for Thermoelectric Applications: Synthesis, Growth Mechanism, and Property Studies

(2010) Genqiang Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Air/Liquid-Pressure and Heartbeat-Driven Flexible Fiber Nanogenerators as a Micro/Nano-Power Source or Diagnostic Sensor

(2010) Zetang Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Single-InN-Nanowire Nanogenerator with Upto 1 V Output Voltage

(2010) Chi-Te Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Sound-Driven Piezoelectric Nanowire-Based Nanogenerators

(2010) Seung Nam Cha et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Generating Electricity from Biofluid with a Nanowire-Based Biofuel Cell for Self-Powered Nanodevices

(2010) Caofeng Pan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Polymer-Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2010) Christoph J. Brabec et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

For the Bright Future-Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiency of 7.4%

(2010) Yongye Liang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Muscle-Driven In Vivo Nanogenerator

(2010) Zhou Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Strain-Gated Piezotronic Logic Nanodevices

(2010) Wenzhuo Wu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Quantum Dot Monolayer Sensitized ZnO Nanowire-Array Photoelectrodes: True Efficiency for Water Splitting

(2010) Hao Ming Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Self-powered ultraviolet photodetector based on a single Sb-doped ZnO nanobelt

(2010) Ya Yang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Arrays and Applications of Multiple Exciton Generation to Third-Generation Photovoltaic Solar Cells

(2010) A. J. Nozik et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2010) Anders Hagfeldt et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Solar Water Splitting Cells

(2010) Michael G. Walter et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Recent Advances in Enzymatic Fuel Cells: Experiments and Modeling

(2010) Ivan Ivanov et al.   Energies

Optical Methane Sensor Based on a Fiber Loop at 1665 nm

(2010) Kuanglu Yu et al.   IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL

A Low-Cost Electromagnetic Generator for Vibration Energy Harvesting

(2010) Emmanuel Bouendeu et al.   IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL

Self-Powered Wireless Sensor for Air Temperature and Velocity Measurements With Energy Harvesting Capability

(2010) Emilio Sardini et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT

Fundamental study of mechanical energy harvesting using piezoelectric nanostructures

(2010) Chengliang Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Enhancement of the thermoelectric properties in nanoscale and nanostructured materials

(2010) Jeannine R. Szczech et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Nanowire−Quantum Dot Hybridized Cell for Harvesting Sound and Solar Energies

(2010) Minbaek Lee et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Hybrid tandem solar cell for concurrently converting light and heat energy with utilization of full solar spectrum

(2010) Xiao-Zhi Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

GaN Nanowire Arrays for High-Output Nanogenerators

(2010) Chi-Te Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High Current Density Air-Breathing Laccase Biocathode

(2010) Wayne Gellett et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY

Planar Waveguide−Nanowire Integrated Three-Dimensional Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2010) Yaguang Wei et al.   NANO LETTERS

High-Output Nanogenerator by Rational Unipolar Assembly of Conical Nanowires and Its Application for Driving a Small Liquid Crystal Display

(2010) Youfan Hu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Piezoelectric Ribbons Printed onto Rubber for Flexible Energy Conversion

(2010) Yi Qi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Flexible High-Output Nanogenerator Based on Lateral ZnO Nanowire Array

(2010) Guang Zhu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Piezoelectric BaTiO3Thin Film Nanogenerator on Plastic Substrates

(2010) Kwi-Il Park et al.   NANO LETTERS

Light Trapping in Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells

(2010) Erik Garnett et al.   NANO LETTERS

Direct-Write Piezoelectric Polymeric Nanogenerator with High Energy Conversion Efficiency

(2010) Chieh Chang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Toward self-powered sensor networks

(2010) Zhong Lin Wang   Nano Today

Piezopotential gated nanowire devices: Piezotronics and piezo-phototronics

(2010) Zhong Lin Wang   Nano Today

Upscaling of polymer solar cell fabrication using full roll-to-roll processing

(2010) Frederik C. Krebs et al.   Nanoscale

ZnO nanotube-based dye-sensitized solar cell and its application in self-powered devices

(2010) Jingbin Han et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Erratum: Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications

(2010) Michael D. Kelzenberg et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices

(2010) Harry A. Atwater et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Self-powered nanowire devices

(2010) Sheng Xu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Three-Dimensional, Flexible Nanoscale Field-Effect Transistors as Localized Bioprobes

(2010) B. Tian et al.   SCIENCE

Miniaturizing microbial fuel cells

(2010) Fang Qian et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Solar Fuels via Artificial Photosynthesis

(2009) Devens Gust et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Mechanically Powered Transparent Flexible Charge-Generating Nanodevices with Piezoelectric ZnO Nanorods

(2009) Min-Yeol Choi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Schottky-Gated Probe-Free ZnO Nanowire Biosensor

(2009) Ping-Hung Yeh et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Optical Fiber/Nanowire Hybrid Structures for Efficient Three-Dimensional Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2009) Benjamin Weintraub et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

New and Old Concepts in Thermoelectric Materials

(2009) Joseph R. Sootsman et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells with vertically oriented ZnO nanowires

(2009) Junpeng Liu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Semiconductor Nanowires for Energy Conversion

(2009) Allon I. Hochbaum et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Nanostructured Thermoelectrics: The New Paradigm?†

(2009) Mercouri G. Kanatzidis   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Dye-Sensitized TiO2Nanotube Solar Cells with Markedly Enhanced Performance via Rational Surface Engineering

(2009) Jun Wang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future prospects

(2009) A. J. Minnich et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Analysis and Improvement of a Scaled-Up and Stacked Microbial Fuel Cell

(2009) Arjan Dekker et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Enabling technologies for wireless body area networks: A survey and outlook

(2009) Huasong Cao et al.   IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE

The Design of a Micro Power Management System for Applications Using Photovoltaic Cells With the Maximum Output Power Control

(2009) Hui Shao et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS

Effects of piezoelectric potential on the transport characteristics of metal-ZnO nanowire-metal field effect transistor

(2009) Zhiyuan Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Examining architectures of photoanode–photovoltaic tandem cells for solar water splitting

(2009) Jeremie Brillet et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Wearable electronics self-powered by using human body heat: The state of the art and the perspective

(2009) Vladimir Leonov et al.   Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Nanowire Structured Hybrid Cell for Concurrently Scavenging Solar and Mechanical Energies

(2009) Chen Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

ZnO nanowire and nanobelt platform for nanotechnology

(2009) Zhong Lin Wang   MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS

Converting Biomechanical Energy into Electricity by a Muscle-Movement-Driven Nanogenerator

(2009) Rusen Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Direct Heteroepitaxy of Vertical InAs Nanowires on Si Substrates for Broad Band Photovoltaics and Photodetection

(2009) Wei Wei et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nitrogen-Doped ZnO Nanowire Arrays for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

(2009) Xunyu Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Photovoltaic Devices with a Low Band Gap Polymer and CdSe Nanostructures Exceeding 3% Efficiency

(2009) Smita Dayal et al.   NANO LETTERS

Three-dimensional nanopillar-array photovoltaics on low-cost and flexible substrates

(2009) Zhiyong Fan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future

(2009) Michel Armand et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100%

(2009) Sung Heum Park et al.   Nature Photonics

Self-Powered Nanotech

(2009) Zhong Lin Wang   SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Towards Self-Powered Nanosystems: From Nanogenerators to Nanopiezotronics

(2008) Zhong Lin Wang   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ultralow-Power Electronics for Biomedical Applications

(2008) Anantha P. Chandrakasan et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Piezoelectric nanogenerator using CdS nanowires

(2008) Yi-Feng Lin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Wireless Sensor Networks and Chemo-/Biosensing

(2008) Dermot Diamond et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

A microfluidic glucose biofuel cell to generate micropower from enzymes at ambient temperature

(2008) A. Zebda et al.   ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS

A high-power glucose/oxygen biofuel cell operating under quiescent conditions

(2008) Hideki Sakai et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Piezoelectric Nanogenerators for Self-Powered Nanodevices

(2008) Zhong Lin Wang et al.   IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING

A Microfabricated PDMS Microbial Fuel Cell

(2008) C.-P.-B. Siu et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Structural studies of enzyme-based microfluidic biofuel cells

(2008) Makoto Togo et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Higher Manganese Silicide Nanowires of Nowotny Chimney Ladder Phase

(2008) Jeremy M. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

CdS Quantum Dots Sensitized TiO2Nanotube-Array Photoelectrodes

(2008) Wen-Tao Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

[FeFe]-Hydrogenase-Catalyzed H2Production in a Photoelectrochemical Biofuel Cell

(2008) Michael Hambourger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Integrated Multilayer Nanogenerator Fabricated Using Paired Nanotip-to-Nanowire Brushes

(2008) Sheng Xu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Single and Tandem Axialp-i-nNanowire Photovoltaic Devices

(2008) Thomas J. Kempa et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical Absorption Enhancement in Amorphous Silicon Nanowire and Nanocone Arrays

(2008) Jia Zhu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Energy harvesting for self-powered nanosystems

(2008) Zhong Lin Wang   Nano Research

Microfibre–nanowire hybrid structure for energy scavenging

(2008) Yong Qin et al.   NATURE

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires

(2008) Allon I. Hochbaum et al.   NATURE

Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials

(2008) Akram I. Boukai et al.   NATURE

A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light

(2008) Xinchen Wang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Power generation with laterally packaged piezoelectric fine wires

(2008) Rusen Yang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Memristive switching mechanism for metal/oxide/metal nanodevices

(2008) J. Joshua Yang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Enhanced size-dependent piezoelectricity and elasticity in nanostructures due to the flexoelectric effect

(2008) M. S. Majdoub et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Wireless body sensor networks for health-monitoring applications

(2008) Yang Hao et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT

Energy Harvesting From Human and Machine Motion for Wireless Electronic Devices

(2008) P.D. Mitcheson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

MATERIALS SCIENCE: Electrochemical Capacitors for Energy Management

(2008) J. R. Miller et al.   SCIENCE

High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys

(2008) B. Poudel et al.   SCIENCE

Entrapment of Enzymes and Carbon Nanotubes in Biologically Synthesized Silica: Glucose Oxidase-Catalyzed Direct Electron Transfer

(2008) Dmitri Ivnitski et al.   Small

Stability/degradation of polymer solar cells

(2008) Mikkel Jørgensen et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Energy scavenging for long-term deployable wireless sensor networks

(2008) Cian Ó Mathúna et al.   TALANTA

Polymer–Fullerene Composite Solar Cells

(2007) Barry C. Thompson et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Carrier Density and Schottky Barrier on the Performance of DC Nanogenerator

(2007) Jin Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS