Book by Zhong Lin Wang, Nanogenerators for Self-powered Devices and Systems

Professor Zhong Lin Wang, of Georgia Tech, has just made his new book free online.  Here is the abstract of the book written by the author.  Ever since we demonstrated the first nanogenerators using piezoelectric nanowires for converting mechanical energy into electricity (Wang & Song, Science, 312, 242-246 (2006)), a great interest has been excited worldwide for developing various approaches for energy harvesting. A key idea presented in the 2006 paper is the self-powered nanotechnology, aiming at powering nanodevices/nanosystems using the energy harvested from the environment in which the systems are suppose to operate. We have published a series of papers during a period of 6 years covering the basic theory, mechanism, engineering scale up and potential applications of nanogenerators (see Appendix). To provide a comprehensive and coherent review about the development of nanogenerators, I have organized this book based on our published papers. The readers are encouraged to referring to the original papers for details and citations.