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Piezoelectric energy harvester
Piezoelectric energy collection: Capture mechanical energy and power transportation, wear, and IoT devices.
Type
Energy harvester
Tags
Nanomaterials
Physical energy storage
Physics
Heat transfer
Thermodynamic
Thermal
Thermophysical properties
Piezoelectric type
Energy science and technology other subjects
Energy systems engineering
Energy harvester
Solution maturity
Early adoption / Process verification
Applicable industry
Scientific research and technology services
Applications
Smart city
Key innovations
Innovative: Using high-performance piezoelectric materials to realize energy collection and self-power supply in multiple scenarios (road surface, wearable, MEMS). It has high power density, small size, and can be integrated, and has prototypes.
Potential economic benefits
Significantly save power costs, empower self-powered applications such as the Internet of Things and intelligent transportation, reduce operation and maintenance costs, and expand diversified emerging markets, with huge economic benefits.
Potential climate benefits
Piezoelectric energy harvesters use mechanical energy to power street lights, signal control systems, etc., directly reducing reliance on traditional grid power (mostly fossil fuel power generation), thereby reducing carbon emissions.
Solution supplier
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Shanghai Silicate Institute
Shanghai Silicate Institute
Shanghai Silicate Institute is a national-level research institution for inorganic non-metallic materials, focusing on the research and development of advanced ceramics and serving high-tech applications such as aerospace and energy.
China
Solution details

Piezoelectric energy harvesters are widely used as a new energy technology. Large-area paving can be used for road deformation energy in railways, highways, airports, subway entrances, etc., and power street lights, signal control systems, automatic card readers, etc. It can be combined with wearable devices to collect mechanical energy generated when people walk to charge and power low-power mobile devices. Piezoelectric energy collection technology can also be combined with MEMS technology to power micro-nano sensors and on-chip systems, and is used in fields such as the Internet of Things, wireless sensor networks, intelligent transportation, industrial monitoring, environmental testing, and biomedicine. Piezoelectric vibration energy collectors developed based on high-performance piezoelectric single crystal materials have the advantages of high power density, small size, and integration; the piezoelectric energy collectors output alternating current, which can be used for functional circuits by using subsequent rectification circuits and voltage changes; It can provide self-energy and has formed products with certain theoretical research foundations and prototype products, such as piezoelectric energy-collecting floors, wireless passive switches, intelligent transportation systems, etc. Piezoelectric energy collectors have received support from the Ministry of Science and Technology (12 million yuan), National Natural Science Foundation (800,000 yuan) and Shanghai City "Spring Bamboo Shoots Plan"(10 million yuan) support, hoping to cooperate with enterprises with certain production scale and market development capabilities to promote and apply.


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