Two things that are becoming increasingly important parts of our clean technology future are improved batteries and
mechanical energy harvesting devices, also known as piezoelectric devices, that can generate electricity from our everyday movements.
Low - frequency
mechanical energy harvesting could provide as much as 40 percent of the power requirements for next generation smartphones and tablets.
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.»
Not exact matches
In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a
mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable
energy harvesting of unused
mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.
Devices to
harvest ambient
mechanical energy to convert to electricity are widely used to power wearable electronics, biomedical devices and the so - called Internet of Things (IoT)-- everyday objects that wirelessly connect to the internet.
«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.
«The
energy with this new system is harvested as before by braking and pedaling, just that it now also converts mechanical energy into electrical energy thanks to the Integrated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (
energy with this new system is
harvested as before by braking and pedaling, just that it now also converts
mechanical energy into electrical energy thanks to the Integrated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (
energy into electrical
energy thanks to the Integrated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (
energy thanks to the Integrated Kinetic
Energy Recovery System (
Energy Recovery System (KERS).
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