Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: a Systematic Review of Reviews

TL;DR

This paper systematically reviews existing review articles on piezoelectric energy harvesting, highlighting progress, gaps, and future research directions to guide the development of this interdisciplinary field.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive synthesis of review papers, identifies missing topics, and offers strategic recommendations for future research in piezoelectric energy harvesting.

Findings

Identified overlaps and contradictions in existing reviews.

Summarized future research directions and missing topics.

Evaluated review papers based on merits and categories.

Abstract

In the last decade, an explosive attention has been paid to piezoelectric harvesters due to their flexibility in design and increasing need to small-scale energy generation. As a result, various energy review papers have been presented by many researchers to cover different aspects of piezoelectric-based energy harvesting, including piezo-materials, modeling approaches, and design points for various applications. Most of such papers tried to shed light on recent progresses in related interdisciplinary fields, and to pave the road for future prospects of development of such technologies. However, there are some missing parts, overlaps, or even some contradictions in the review papers. In the present review of review articles, recommendations for future research directions suggested by the review papers have been systematically summed up under one umbrella. In the final section, topics for missing review papers, concluding remarks on outlooks and possible research topics, and strategy-misleading contents have been presented. The review papers have been evaluated based on merits and subcategories and authors' choice papers have been presented for each section based on clear classification criteria.