Toward Wearable Self‐Charging Power Systems: The Integration of Energy‐Harvesting and Storage Devices
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One major challenge for wearable electronics is that the state‐of‐the‐art batteries are inadequate to provide sufficient energy for long‐term operations, leading to inconvenient battery replacement or frequent recharging. Other than the pursuit of high energy density of secondary batteries, an alternative approach recently drawing intensive attention from the research community, is to integrate energy‐generation and energy‐storage devices into self‐charging power systems (SCPSs), so that the scavenged energy can be simultaneously stored for sustainable power supply. This paper reviews recent developments in SCPSs with the integration of various energy‐harvesting devices (including piezoelectric nanogenerators, triboelectric nanogenerators, solar cells, and thermoelectric nanogenerators) and energy‐storage devices, such as batteries and supercapacitors. SCPSs with multiple energy‐harvesting devices are also included. Emphasis is placed on integrated flexible or wearable SCPSs. Remaining challenges and perspectives are also examined to suggest how to bring the appealing SCPSs into practical applications in the near future.
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- Authors
- Pu, X., Hu, W., & Wang, Z. L.
- Affiliations
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hu, Weiguo
- Wang, Zhong Lin
- Venue
- Small
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-11-30
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1613-6810 (ISSN-L)
- 1613-6829
- OpenAlex
- W2771578965
- Cited by
- 378
- References
- 166
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 61 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 54 · 2018: 27
- FWCI
- 2.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Small (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51432005, 61574018, 51603013)
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
- Keywords
- wearable electronics, energy harvesting, energy storage, piezoelectric nanogenerators, triboelectric nanogenerator, solar cells, supercapacitors, batteries
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