Not exact matches
This new tag uses a
flexible strip containing
piezoelectric materials, which generate electricity through physical movement.
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.
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.