Sentences with phrase «flexible piezoelectric»

Part of the excitement is that such flexible piezoelectric crystals would make more sensitive detectors and could improve the resolution of medical devices that use ultrasound.

This picture shows that a self - powered cardiac pacemaker is enabled by a flexible piezoelectric energy harvester.

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.

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

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.

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This new tag uses a flexible strip containing piezoelectric materials, which generate electricity through physical movement.

First, he created 20 - centimetre - long flexible ribbons made of a piezoelectric polymer that generates electrical currents when perturbed, either by wind or when rain drops fall on it.

According to the authors on the paper «Flexible Ionic Devices for Low - Frequency Mechanical Energy Harvesting» published online in the journal Advanced Energy Materials, «The peak power density of our device is in general larger than or comparable to those of piezoelectric generators operated at their most efficient frequencies.»

The thin and flexible material works on the piezoelectric effect — the idea of converting mechanical stress into electric charges.

The thin and flexible material, which is quite hard to produce at present, works on the piezoelectric effect — the ability of certain materials to convert mechanical stress into electric charges, Phys.orgreports.

«We can directly create piezoelectric materials of the shape we want, where we want them, on flexible substrates for use in energy harvesting and other applications,» said Nazanin Bassiri - Gharb, co-author of the paper and an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.