Advances in energy harvesting methods Introduction and Methods of Mechanical Energy Harvesting Broadband Vibration Energy Harvesting Techniques MEMS Electrostatic Energy Harvesters with Nonlinear Springs Broadband Energy Harvesting from a Bistable Potential Well Plucked Piezoelectric Bimorphs for Energy Harvesting Energy Harvesting with Vibrating Shoe Mounted Piezoelectric Cantilevers Role of Stiffness Nonlinearities in the Transduction of Energy Harvesters Under White Gaussian Excitations Random Excitation of Bistable Harvesters Energy Harvesting from Fluids using Ionic Polymer Metal Composites Flow Induced Vibrations for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Airfoil Based Linear and Nonlinear Electroaeroelastic Energy Harvesting Acoustic Energy Harvesting using Sonic Crystals Power Conditioning Techniques for Energy Harvesting Asynchronous Event Based Self Powering Computation and Data Logging Vibration Based Energy Harvesting Integrated Circuits Stretching the Capabilities of Energy Harvesting: Electroactive Polymers Based on Dielectric Elastomers Materials and Devices for MEMS Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvesting with High Permeability Magnetic Materials