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Energy Technology, 2019 Energy harvesting from the environment based on electroactive polymers has been increasing in recent years. Ferroelectric polymers are used as mechanical to electrical energy transducers in a wide range of applications, scavenging the surrounding energy ...
P. Costa +5 more
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Recent Advances on Self‐Powered Metal Halide Perovskite Photodetectors
EcoEnergy, EarlyView.This review outlines that metal halide perovskites, with high absorption coefficient and carrier mobility, enable self‐powered photodetectors. These devices operate without external power, with improvements via structural optimization, film engineering, and defect passivation, showing promise in smart sensors and Internet of Things applications ...
Guoqing Xiong +5 more
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Diesel Exhaust Emission Soot Coated Pyroelectric Materials for Improved Thermal Energy Harvesting
Global Challenges, 2019 Pyroelectric performance is significantly improved using a coating of diesel exhaust soot. Coated pyroelectric sample (lead zirconate titanate) is exposed to a temporal temperature gradient.
Puneet Azad +2 more
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Temperature Field Analysis for PZT Pyroelectric Cells for Thermal Energy Harvesting
Sensors, 2011 This paper proposes the idea of etching PZT to improve the temperature variation rate of a thicker PZT sheet in order to enhance the energy conversion efficiency when used as pyroelectric cells.
Chi-Yuan Lee +3 more
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, 2014 Citation: 'pyroelectric detector' in the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed.; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. 10.1351/goldbook.P04960 • License: The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International for individual terms.
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Two‐Dimensional Piezoelectric Nanomaterials for Nanoelectronics and Energy Harvesting
ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.Two‐Dimensional Piezoelectric Nanomaterials from properties to applications. Smart materials, especially piezoelectric materials, have gained popularity over the last two decades. Two‐dimensional (2D) piezoelectric materials exhibit attributes including great flexibility, ease of workability, extensive surface area, and many active sites, indicating ...
Yujun Cao +12 more
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ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.Overview of thermal field–enhanced electro‐, photo‐, and photoelectrocatalytic processes: fundamentals, material design, and applications. As a very attractive approach to energy conversion and storage, electrocatalytic, photocatalytic, and photoelectrocatalytic strategies have gained increasing attention in the past decades.
Ziyi Qiao +6 more
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Hydrogen Halide Gas Sensors: Active Materials, Operation Principles, and Emerging Technologies
Interdisciplinary Materials, EarlyView.This review considers hydrogen halide (HX) gas sensors across functional materials and principles: acoustic, chemical, optical and nanophotonic. The strong acidity and reactivity of HX gases are discussed as constraints for stability and selectivity of these devices.
Xiuzhen Liu +12 more
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The flexoelectric effect associated size dependent pyroelectricity in solid dielectrics
AIP Advances, 2015 A phenomenological thermodynamic theory is used to investigate the effect of strain gradient on the pyroelectric effect in centrosymmetric dielectric solids.
Gang Bai +5 more
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Improving Pyroelectric Energy Harvesting Using a Sandblast Etching Technique
Sensors, 2013 Large amounts of low-grade heat are emitted by various industries and exhausted into the environment. This heat energy can be used as a free source for pyroelectric power generation.
An-Shen Siao, Chun-Ching Hsiao
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