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In the last half century, the developing trend of electronics is miniaturization and portability. The history of computers is a typical example, from the vacuum tube based huge-size machine, to solid state MOSFET based main frame computer and later laptop computer, and now to handhold cell phone; the number of such computers the world possess changed from a few worldwide, to one per unit, and now one per person.
The near future development is about the electronics that are much smaller than the size of a cell phone, so that each person can have at least dozens to hundreds of such small electronics on average.
Such a small size electronics and its working mode like a sensor largely reduces its power consumption, making it possible to use the energy harvested from our living environment to power it.
It will become impractical if sensor networks has to be powered entirely by batteries because of the huge number of devices, large scope of distribution, and difficulty to track and recycle to minimize environmental impact and possibly health hazadouse.
Therefore, power sources are desperately needed for independent, sustainable, maintain-free and continuous operations of such small electronics, which could be used widely for ultrasensitive chemical and biomolecular sensors, nanorobotics, micro-electromechanical systems, remote and mobile environmental sensors, homeland security and even portable/wearable personal electronics.
Therefore, new technologies that can harvest energy from the environment as sustainable self-sufficient micro/nano-power sources offer a possible solution. This is a newly emerging field of nanoenergy, which is about the applications of nanomaterials and nanotechnology for harvesting energy for powering micro/nano-systems.
It can be used to possibly replace battery or at least extend the life time of a battery.
The scope of the Conference covers the following nanoenergy and nanosystem fields:
Energy harvesting - solar cells
Energy harvesting – thermoelectrics and pyroelectrics
Energy harvesting - piezoelectric nanogenerators
Energy harvesting - triboelectric nanogenerators
Energy storage - batteries
Energy storage – supercapacitors
Hybridization of power conversion and storage Self-charging power cell
Hybridization of energy harvesting technologies
Powering of micro and nano devices
Power source for flexible electronics Nanosensors and nanodevices
Nanogenerators as active sensors
Piezotronics Piezo-phototronics
Array of nanodevices Self-powered devices/systems
Interfacing with biology/medicine
Interfacing with CMOS technology
MEMS and human-machine interfacing
