Materials Design for Energy Harvesting and Sensor Applications

Hiroki Kurita has been Assistant Professor at Tohoku University in Japan since 2018. His current research interests involve developing piezoelectric and magnetostrictive materials for energy harvesting and developing wearable devices and smart sensors. He recently studied the additive manufacturing of magnetostrictive alloys to fabricate complex shapes to enhance energy harvesting performance. He also studies natural fiber-reinforced biodegradable polymer matrix composites (green composites). He is interested in the relationships between mechanical properties and the decomposition level of natural fiber-reinforced biodegradable polymer matrix composites. He also addresses the development of high-specific strength metal and ceramic matrix composites. Yu SHI is Professor and director of Chester Smart Materials Centre (CHESMAC), focusing on smart composite structure with embedded electronics, welding and recycling of composite, damage assessment of composite, finite element modelling, nanocomposite, energy harvesting, structural health monitoring of composite for future lightweight and sustainable applications on electric/hydrogen aircraft, automotive, rail vehicles, space, renewable (wind and hydrogen) energies and healthcare. He is the Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) and Chartered Engineer (CEng). Haidong WANG is an associate professor and vice-director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University. His research focuses on the micro/nano heat transfer, property characterization of nanomaterials, and development of functional nano-devices. He has invented H-type comprehensive measurement method to simultaneously measure the electrical, thermal and electro-thermal properties of the same nanomaterial. He recently studied the high-performance two-dimensional heterostructure devices for the charge and heat transport manipulation. He has developed suspended graphene nanopore bio-sensor for single molecule detection.

• 1. Functionally graded piezoelectric composites for energy-harvesting2. Energy harvesting behavior for multifunctional composite3. High performance flexible energy harvesting nanogenerators and sensors for revolutionizing healthcare4. Digital self-powered energy harvester with vibration estimation and control5. Nonlinear finite element analysis and wind tunnel experiment of flutter energy harvesting6. Thermoelectric materials for flexible devices7. Origami-type flexible thermoelectric generator8. Flexible thermoelectric composites for energy harvesting9. Integration of Si-based micro thermoelectric generator devices10. Design of heat guide layers in micro thermoelectric generators11. Thin film thermoelectric generator12. Frosting and defrosting on surface controlled by thermoelectric system13. Magnetostrictive composites for energy harvesting applications14. Magnetostrictive composites for sensor applications15. Additive manufacturing of magnetostrictive alloys: current trend and perspective16. Triboelectric materials for sensor and energy harvesting applications17. Multiscale optimal design of smart materials18. Recent advances in thermal property characterization and phonon engineering of low-dimensional materials