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Experts at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) say that they have created a new type of nanogenerator technology that can be manufactured at low costs. The large-area approach relies on the use of piezoelectric ceramic nanoparticles.
Piezoelectricity is a property displayed by certain kind... |
8 May 2012
10:02 GMT |
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In a first-of-its-kind achievement, investigators at the Stanford University were recently able to introduce a property called piezoelectricity into a nanoscale material. The substrate they selected was graphene, one of the most remarkable compounds in the world.
Graphene is a 2D carbon compound that boasts a hexago... |
4 April 2012
05:16 GMT |
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Heartbeat vibrations could one day power up a new generation of pacemakers, say scientists at the University of Michigan, in the US. If such a technique could be applied to devices controlling the heart beat, then the need to perform battery replacement surgery would disappear.
At this time, people who carry pacema... |
3 March 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) experts announce the development of a new type of nanoscale generators, which are capable of producing sufficient amounts of electricity to power up small electronic devices, including liquid crystal displays and light-emitting diodes (LED).The secret to the new generato... |
8 November 2010
03:49 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announce the development of a new technology that could, in the future, see devices such as pacemakers being powered by a patient's own heart. The innovation is based on zinc oxide nanowires, a class of materials that show great promise for underly... |
4 June 2010
05:16 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), in the United States, believe they may have produced the first-ever sensing device at the nanoscale that is capable of being completely autonomous in terms of energy requirements. The instrument can power itself, and is made out of two piezoelectric na... |
29 March 2010
06:03 GMT |
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Researchers have been looking for methods of improving energy conversion and production from various sources for many years. One of these sources is movement, something that we do even in our sleep, but which is energy lost. Investigators looking at methods of tapping into these immense energy reserves have attempted... |
30 January 2010
06:42 GMT |
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In the past few years, researchers have been trying to bring the goal of personal electricity generation closer and closer to reality. What they are essentially trying to do is reduce the strain that personal, portable electronic devices place on the world's electric grid. Despite its already-massive levels, thi... |
29 January 2010
01:28 GMT |
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Experts at NXP Semiconductors, in the Netherlands, announce that they have finally managed to achieve one of the most elusive goals of modern physics, namely to produce a heat engine that functions at the microscopic scale. Heat engines are among the most important devices our society and civilization rely upon. Thei... |
22 January 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Researchers at the IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center), in Belgium, announce the development of a new class of ultrasmall, fully autonomous, wireless sensors, which are powered up via micromachined piezoelectric harvesters. The new achievement was reached by using the Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) ... |
16 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Piezoelectric materials are special classes of ceramics and crystals, which have the ability to generate electrical potential when mechanical pressure is applied on them. They currently provide the basis for a large number of applications, including powering up guitar pickups, making for fuses in rocket-propelled gre... |
23 November 2009
01:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently moved ahead of the “pack” in terms of piezoelectric research. The effect refers to traits that certain types of ceramics and composite materials have, of producing electrical potential wh... |
14 November 2009
05:00 GMT |
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US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) experts have recently taken a crucial step in advancing the fields of magnetoresistance and high-temperature superconductivity research, when they have finally answered one of the elusive questions in physics today. The team has... |
18 September 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Piezoelectric devices are well known for their ability to convert mechanical stress into electricity, and a great many research groups around the world are currently working on developing their technology to a point where it could be used in mass applications. Scientists at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), i... |
18 August 2009
09:55 GMT |
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One of the most daring dreams that scientists have is to create a world that is completely self-sustaining, and which is not reliant on exterior sources of power for it to operate. This means that everything requiring electricity will have to reach a high-level of conservation abilities, and also that new and radical... |
28 July 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, ultrasound technology is one of the most important innovations in the medicine of the last century. It allows doctors to peer inside a pregnant woman's womb, and assess the health of her unborn child. At times, they can even discover a number of congenital defects early on in the pregnancy, and then... |
25 May 2009
09:39 GMT |
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