A07-Kinetic Energy Harvesting Materials and Self-Powered Systems

Symposium Introduction

As the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), trillions of widely-distributed devices are integrated for health monitoring, biomedical sensing, environmental protection, infrastructure monitoring, and security, which require power supplies. To provide a sustainable power solution toward the battery-free IoT, various technologies for high-efficiency kinetic energy harvesting from the ambient environment have been demonstrated. These technologies utilizes multiple mechanisms with specific materials required, such as triboelectric materials, piezoelectric materials, flexible & stretchable materials, electrode materials, etc. These studies will drive the further development for broad applications in blue energy harvesting, the battery-free IoT, human-machine interface, health & infrastructure monitoring, wearable & implantable electronics, towards high-efficiency self-powered systems. 
In the past 2 decades, the field of energy harvesting undergoes rapid growth worldwide. Many key scientific questions in this field to maximize the energy output are related to materials. Taking this opportunity of WMC 2025, it is timely demanded to organize the session of “Kinetic Energy Harvesting Materials and Self-Powered Systems” to gather scientists worldwide to discuss on the material science in kinetic energy harvesting and self-powered systems.

Symposium Topics

1, Triboelectric & dielectric materials
2, Piezoelectric & ferroelectric materials
3, Flexible & stretchable materials for kinetic energy harvesting
4, Self-powered systems and advanced materials

Symposium Organizers 

Organized by

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Mid Sweden University

Supported by

Tsinghua University, Chongqing University, Soochow University

Contact with

Name: Xin XIA

Phone: +86-17629015573

Email: eexxia@ust.hk

Institution: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology