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Research Update: Materials design of implantable nanogenerators for biomechanical energy harvesting
APL Materials, 2017 Implantable nanogenerators are rapidly advanced recently as a promising concept for harvesting biomechanical energy in vivo. This review article presents an overview of the most current progress of implantable piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) and ...
Jun Li, Xudong Wang
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The recent advances in self‐powered medical information sensors
InfoMat, 2020 Monitoring various medical information distributed throughout the body is of great importance in early clinic diagnosis and treatment of disease. To discover abnormal medical signals and find their causes in good time, the human body should be monitored ...
Luming Zhao +3 more
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Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Piezoelectric/Triboelectric Nanogenerator [PDF]
, 2019 Nanogenerator has been a major focus among researchers of recent time due to its versatile use in everyday life. Though the discovery of the piezoelectricity and the triboelectricity dates back to 19th century, the use of these phenomena has not been in ...
Chowdhury, Aminur Rashid
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Recycling of human teeth for piezoelectric energy harvesting
GiantIn the human body, non-centrosymmetric biological structures exhibit piezoelectric effect across from microscopic biomolecular building blocks to macroscopic tissues and organs.
Yuanyuan Yin +7 more
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Triboelectric and Piezoelectric Nanogenerators for Future Soft Robots and Machines
iScience, 2020 Summary: The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) and piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) are two recently developed technologies for effective harvesting of ambient mechanical energy for the creation of self-powered systems.
Min Pan +5 more
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BMEMat, 2023 Heart diseases pose a serious threat to human health, and their incidence has been increasing in recent years. In past decades, many strategies have been developed to decrease the mortality and morbidity of heart diseases, among them, strategies ...
Luming Zhao +5 more
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Sensors, 2023 This study investigates the piezoelectric and piezotronic properties of a novel composite material comprising polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and antimony sulphoiodide (SbSI) nanowires.
Jakub Jała +2 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A lead‐free tin‐based hybrid perovskite is designed in which stereochemically active lone‐pair electrons on tin distort the crystal lattice and break its symmetry. Blended into a flexible polymer, the material converts pressure into electricity at milliwatt‐scale power density and continues working far below freezing, powering a commercial wristwatch ...
Majid Haji Bagheri +12 more
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Bioengineered Interfaces for Peripheral Nerve Sensory Restoration
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Half of amputees abandon their prosthetics for lack of feeling. This review charts the full path from peripheral nerve injury to restored sensation, through surgical, regenerative, noninvasive, and implanted approaches, and shows how injury type and interface material properties determine which strategy can deliver naturalistic feedback, and why ...
Sydney Swedick +4 more
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