S5: Piezoelectric and Triboelectric Energy Harvesting using Low-Dimensional Materials

Low dimensional materials including nanowires, nanotubes, fibers, and nanomaterials have received growing interest in various research fields including piezoelectric and triboelectric energy harvesting. Low dimensional materials exhibit a wide range of unique mechanical, electrical and electromechanical properties that are hardly observable at macro-scales, offering substantial capability for applications in energy harvesting. For example, two-dimensional materials with a non-centerosymmetric structure have been experimentally confirmed or theoretically predicted as piezoelectric or triboelectric. This symposium will provide a great opportunity where recent research knowledge and innovating ideas on low dimensional materials, devices and related technology for energy harvesting are actively shared and discussed.

 Proposed sessions

• Fundamental physics of energy conversion and harvesting at the nano- and micro-scale
• Synthesis, fabrication and characterization techniques of low-dimensional materials and devices
• Two-dimensional materials and devices for piezoelectric and triboelectric energy harvesting
• Nanomaterials and nanostructures for piezoelectric and triboelectric energy harvesting: nanowires, nanotubes, nanofibers and composite nanomaterials

Symposium organizers

Miso Kim, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea, misokim@kriss.re.kr

Sohini Kar-Narayan, University of Cambridge, UK, sk568@cam.ac.uk

Wenzhuo Wu, Purdue University, USA, wenzhuowu@purdue.edu

Rusen Yang, Xidian University, China, rsyang@xidian.edu.cn