Roadmap on energy harvesting materials
Date
2023-08-07
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Journal of Physics: Materials
Abstract
Ambient energy harvesting has great potential to contribute to sustainable development and address growing environmental challenges. Converting waste energy from energy-intensive processes and systems (e.g. combustion engines and furnaces) is crucial to reducing their environmental impact and achieving net-zero emissions. Compact energy harvesters will also be key to powering the exponentially growing smart devices ecosystem that is part of the Internet of Things, thus enabling futuristic applications that can improve our quality of life (e.g. smart homes, smart cities, smart manufacturing, and smart healthcare). To achieve these goals, innovative materials are needed to efficiently convert ambient energy into electricity through various physical mechanisms, such as the photovoltaic effect, thermoelectricity, piezoelectricity, triboelectricity, and radiofrequency wireless power transfer. By bringing together the perspectives of experts in various types of energy harvesting materials, this Roadmap provides extensive insights into recent advances and present challenges in the field. Additionally, the Roadmap analyses the key performance metrics of these technologies in relation to their ultimate energy conversion limits. Building on these insights, the Roadmap outlines promising directions for future research to fully harness the potential of energy harvesting materials for green energy anytime, anywhere.
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Please see publication for complete list of co-authors. This article was originally published in Journal of Physics: Materials. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/acc550. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
Keywords
affordable and clean energy
Citation
Pecunia, Vincenzo, S Ravi P Silva, Jamie D Phillips, Elisa Artegiani, Alessandro Romeo, Hongjae Shim, Jongsung Park, et al. “Roadmap on Energy Harvesting Materials.” Journal of Physics: Materials 6, no. 4 (October 1, 2023): 042501. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/acc550.