Ricoh today announced that it has created a novel flexible material “Energy-Generating Rubber” that converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high efficiency. Cur... Read more
Ultimately, Zhong Lin Wang notes, the research could lead to complete atomic-thick nanosystems that are self-powered by harvesting mechanical energy from the environment. Researchers from Co... Read more
Researchers at Penn State have demonstrated an acoustofluidic pump powered by a piezoelectric transducer about the size of a quarter. This reliable, inexpensive, programmable pump is a cruci... Read more
Researchers have developed a device which could revolutionize the way cutting, drilling and milling is done in manufacturing. The tool makes working on difficult-to-cut materials like aerosp... Read more
This technology could facilitate the use of self-powered flexible energy harvesters, not only prolonging the lifetime of cardiac pacemakers but also realizing real-time heart monitoring. As... Read more
The energy efficiency of KAIST’s piezoelectric nanogenerator has increased by almost 40 times, one step closer toward the commercialization of flexible energy harvesters that can suppl... Read more
Flexible plastics that turn mechanical vibrations into electrical energy could spur the development of self-powered sensors and devices The shrinking dimensions and decreased power consumpti... Read more
Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich have succeeded in producing a prototype of a vibration-damping material that could change the world of mechanics forever. The material of the future is n... Read more
The researchers grew billions of tiny rods (nanorods) made from zinc oxide, then covered them with an active polymer to form a device that converts sunlight into electricity. Playing pop and... Read more
Called a Strawscraper, this tower is covered in piezoelectric fronds that rustle in the wind, generating power for people inside. It’s just a concept, for now, but a pretty interesting one,... Read more
MIT engineers have created a new polymer film that can generate electricity by drawing on a ubiquitous source: water vapor. The new material changes its shape after absorbing tiny amounts of... Read more
“We are combining our earlier nanogenerator and this new triboelectric generator for complementary purposes.” Triboelectric Generator Produces Electricity by Harnessing Frictional Forc... Read more
Applications could include biosensing, medical devices, environmental and health monitoring, defense technology, and – why not – the Internet of Things Researchers at the... Read more
Might open new and dramatic possibilities in nanotechnology In what became known as the ‘Scotch tape technique,” researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in... Read more
Energy harvesters make use of a piezoelectric material Randomness and chaos in nature, as it turns out, can be a good thing — especially when trying to harvest energy from the m... Read more
