Recent Progress of Nanogenerators for Green Energy Harvesting: Performance, Applications, and Challenges
Natural sources of green energy include sunshine, water, biomass, geothermal heat, and wind. These energies are alternate forms of electrical energy that do not rely on fossil fuels. Green energy is environmentally benign, as it avoids the generation of greenhouse gases and pollutants. Various syste...
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| author | Enrique Delgado-Alvarado Ernesto A. Elvira-Hernández José Hernández-Hernández Jesús Huerta-Chua Héctor Vázquez-Leal Jaime Martínez-Castillo Pedro J. García-Ramírez Agustín L. Herrera-May |
| author_facet | Enrique Delgado-Alvarado Ernesto A. Elvira-Hernández José Hernández-Hernández Jesús Huerta-Chua Héctor Vázquez-Leal Jaime Martínez-Castillo Pedro J. García-Ramírez Agustín L. Herrera-May |
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| description | Natural sources of green energy include sunshine, water, biomass, geothermal heat, and wind. These energies are alternate forms of electrical energy that do not rely on fossil fuels. Green energy is environmentally benign, as it avoids the generation of greenhouse gases and pollutants. Various systems and equipment have been utilized to gather natural energy. However, most technologies need a huge amount of infrastructure and expensive equipment in order to power electronic gadgets, smart sensors, and wearable devices. Nanogenerators have recently emerged as an alternative technique for collecting energy from both natural and artificial sources, with significant benefits such as light weight, low-cost production, simple operation, easy signal processing, and low-cost materials. These nanogenerators might power electronic components and wearable devices used in a variety of applications such as telecommunications, the medical sector, the military and automotive industries, and internet of things (IoT) devices. We describe new research on the performance of nanogenerators employing several green energy acquisition processes such as piezoelectric, electromagnetic, thermoelectric, and triboelectric. Furthermore, the materials, applications, challenges, and future prospects of several nanogenerators are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0361cb4e907a4f93bfba430cd93604832023-11-30T22:42:08ZengMDPI AGNanomaterials2079-49912022-07-011215254910.3390/nano12152549Recent Progress of Nanogenerators for Green Energy Harvesting: Performance, Applications, and ChallengesEnrique Delgado-Alvarado0Ernesto A. Elvira-Hernández1José Hernández-Hernández2Jesús Huerta-Chua3Héctor Vázquez-Leal4Jaime Martínez-Castillo5Pedro J. García-Ramírez6Agustín L. Herrera-May7Micro and Nanotechnology Research Center, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río 94294, VER, MexicoMicro and Nanotechnology Research Center, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río 94294, VER, MexicoFacultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Ciencias Navales, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río 94294, VER, MexicoDepartamento de Investigación, Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Poza Rica, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Poza Riza 93230, VER, MexicoFacultad de Instrumentación Electrónica, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río 94294, VER, MexicoMicro and Nanotechnology Research Center, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río 94294, VER, MexicoInstituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río 94294, VER, MexicoMicro and Nanotechnology Research Center, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río 94294, VER, MexicoNatural sources of green energy include sunshine, water, biomass, geothermal heat, and wind. These energies are alternate forms of electrical energy that do not rely on fossil fuels. Green energy is environmentally benign, as it avoids the generation of greenhouse gases and pollutants. Various systems and equipment have been utilized to gather natural energy. However, most technologies need a huge amount of infrastructure and expensive equipment in order to power electronic gadgets, smart sensors, and wearable devices. Nanogenerators have recently emerged as an alternative technique for collecting energy from both natural and artificial sources, with significant benefits such as light weight, low-cost production, simple operation, easy signal processing, and low-cost materials. These nanogenerators might power electronic components and wearable devices used in a variety of applications such as telecommunications, the medical sector, the military and automotive industries, and internet of things (IoT) devices. We describe new research on the performance of nanogenerators employing several green energy acquisition processes such as piezoelectric, electromagnetic, thermoelectric, and triboelectric. Furthermore, the materials, applications, challenges, and future prospects of several nanogenerators are discussed.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/15/2549energy harvestinggreen energyhybrid nanogeneratorspiezoelectric nanogeneratorthermoelectric nanogeneratorstriboelectric nanogenerator |
| spellingShingle | Enrique Delgado-Alvarado Ernesto A. Elvira-Hernández José Hernández-Hernández Jesús Huerta-Chua Héctor Vázquez-Leal Jaime Martínez-Castillo Pedro J. García-Ramírez Agustín L. Herrera-May Recent Progress of Nanogenerators for Green Energy Harvesting: Performance, Applications, and Challenges Nanomaterials energy harvesting green energy hybrid nanogenerators piezoelectric nanogenerator thermoelectric nanogenerators triboelectric nanogenerator |
| title | Recent Progress of Nanogenerators for Green Energy Harvesting: Performance, Applications, and Challenges |
| title_full | Recent Progress of Nanogenerators for Green Energy Harvesting: Performance, Applications, and Challenges |
| title_fullStr | Recent Progress of Nanogenerators for Green Energy Harvesting: Performance, Applications, and Challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Recent Progress of Nanogenerators for Green Energy Harvesting: Performance, Applications, and Challenges |
| title_short | Recent Progress of Nanogenerators for Green Energy Harvesting: Performance, Applications, and Challenges |
| title_sort | recent progress of nanogenerators for green energy harvesting performance applications and challenges |
| topic | energy harvesting green energy hybrid nanogenerators piezoelectric nanogenerator thermoelectric nanogenerators triboelectric nanogenerator |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/15/2549 |
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