Sentences with phrase «ferroelectret nanogenerator»

A new nanogenerator that acts like a second skin and harvests energy from human motions can easily generate enough power to light 20 small LEDs.

For now, the team wants to boost the energy efficiency of their nanogenerators.

Nanogenerators could allow people to power their iPods and other portable electronics just by walking

Repeated pressing on the resulting nanogenerator lit up about two dozen LEDs instantly.

The team's newly designed flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator directly stimulated a living rat's heart using electrical energy converted from the small body movements of the rat.

«Cellulose nanogenerators could one day power implanted biomedical devices.»

Now scientists have built a flexible nanogenerator out of cellulose, an abundant natural material, that could potentially harvest energy from the body — its heartbeats, blood flow and other almost imperceptible but constant movements.

In addition, the flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator could also be utilized as an electrical source for various implantable medical devices.»

A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), headed by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST and Professor Boyoung Joung, M.D. of the Division of Cardiology at Severance Hospital of Yonsei University, has developed a self - powered artificial cardiac pacemaker that is operated semi-permanently by a flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator.

The research team fabricated high - performance flexible nanogenerators utilizing a bulk single - crystal PMN - PT thin film (iBULe Photonics).

The second layer of nanogenerators lies just beneath the first and harvests energy from the wind.

For power generation, the thread or «fiber - shaped fluidic nanogenerator» (FFNG), as the authors call it, was connected to electrodes and immersed into flowing water or simply repeatedly dipped into a saline solution.

«How to draw electricity from the bloodstream: A one - dimensional fluidic nanogenerator with a high power - conversion efficiency.»

The nanogenerator relies on an electrode integrated into a segment of the tire.

Wang says the nanogenerator provides an excellent way to take advantage of energy that is usually lost due to friction.

«New nanogenerator harvests power from rolling tires.»

The nanogenerator relies on the triboelectric effect to harness energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle's wheels.

In March 2017, a group of physicists at CNI invented the ultra-simple triboelectric nanogenerator, or U-TENG — a small device made simply of plastic and tape that generates electricity from motion and vibrations.

The nanogenerator itself includes thin electrode sheets on the front and back of the mesoporous polymer film, and the researchers can attach this soft, flexible film seamlessly to flat, rough or curvy surfaces, including human skin.

Incorporated directly into a cell phone housing, the team's nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone.

Wang, his Ph.D. student Yanchao Mao and collaborators from Sun Yat - sen University in China, and the University of Minnesota Duluth described their device, a mesoporous piezoelectric nanogenerator, in the January 27, 2014, issue of the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

The nanogenerator could become an integrated part of an electronic device — for example, as its back panel or housing — and automatically harvest energy from ambient vibrations to power the device directly.

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are small devices that convert movement into electricity, and might just be what bring us into an era of energy - harvesting clothes and implants.

In order to make it possible to produce these nanogenerators at scale, the scientists found innovative ways to cut costs in the production process.

Ting Liu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and her colleagues built the nanogenerator by sandwiching a layer of hydrogel between a stretchy plastic material called an elastomer, then coating it in silicone rubber to keep the hydrogel from drying out.

The «nanogenerators» shrunk tumours and kept them from re-growing in mice afflicted with either prostate cancer or lymphoma.

But the nanogenerators that do not reach their target could kill non-cancerous cells.

The researchers attached the nanogenerator to a person's index finger and recorded the power output when it tapped on a surface.

In the test tube, the nanogenerators killed leukaemia, lymphoma, breast, ovarian, neuroblastoma, and prostate human cancer cells.

By now, scientists have figured out how to manufacture spintronic nanogenerators, microwave radiation detectors, and magnetic field sensors that surpass their electronic analogs.

In March 2017, a group of physicists at CNI invented the ultra-simple triboelectric nanogenerator or U-TENG, a small device made of plastic and tape that generates electricity from motion and vibrations.

Since heart tissue is also composed of collagen, our bio-piezoelectric nanogenerator is expected to be very compatible with the heart.»

The researchers are calling the resulting device a «bio-piezoelectric nanogenerator.»

The latest nanogenerator consists of a series of zinc - oxide nanowires mounted on top of a flexible plastic surface.