Design and Characterization of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 1598
Special Issue Editor
Interests: materials for energy conversion and energy storage; smart sensor and actuator technology; ultrasonic transducer technology; power ultrasonics; battery health monitoring; energy harvesting; non-destructive evaluation by ultrasound; ultrasound for biomedical applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy harvesting is emerging as an attainable approach to convert the energy from the ambient including mechanical vibration, thermal energy, magnetic field, sound, and light into electricity for sustainable development of mobile electronic devices and sensor network systems. Innovative materials for energy conversion and storage serve as an alternative power supply, which are crucial to the advanced development of various wearable electronics and wireless sensors. This Special Issue plans to give an overview of state-of-the-art bulk, micro- and nano-scale energy-related materials (including single crystals, ceramics, polymers, alloys, and composites), which involves the advances in the materials design strategies, synthesis, characterizations, and applications.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Magnetoelectric materials
- Piezoelectric materials
- Pyroelectric materials
- Thermoelectric materials
- Triboelectric materials
- Hybrid harvesters
Dr. Kwok-Ho Lam
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- energy harvesting
- energy conversion
- lead-free materials
- single crystals
- ceramics
- polymers
- composites
- thick film
- thin film
- wearable
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