Sentences with phrase «of nanogenerators»

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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