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Triboelectric Device Could Harvest Static Electricity From Waves

Benji Jerew — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:12:01 +0000

Static electricity is all around us, from the tiny shocks you get from taking off your shirt on a dry day [about 20kV] to electrical storms that generate lightning bolts [around 1GV]. Triboelectric devices can harness that energy, even from wave power. The phenomenon has been studied since about 600BC, when it was discovered that […]

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Cheap, Green and Paper-Thin TVs From Georgia Institute of Technology

Mike Sandru — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:30:03 +0000

Maybe you thought that with OLED TVs we went as far as we could go in terms of electronic thinness. Or maybe you think that the thinner they are, the more expensive they become. Wrong! The Georgia Institute of Technology reinvented the notion of thin Tvs by bringing to the market a paper-thin but viable […]

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Researchers Develop More Efficient Energy-Producing Clothes

Mike Sandru — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:32:37 +0000

How would you feel having solar cells in/on your clothes to recharge your small devices? You have to admit, it does sound a little bit weird, to say the least… However, we wouldn’t be talking about anything gross or conventional: just some tiny titanium semiconducting nanorods, in the form of hairbrushes developed on the surface […]

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Nanowires Could Enable Human Heart to Power Gadgets

Mike Sandru — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:15:49 +0000

Nanotechnology – the science of managing matter at a molecular level – has delivered its promises: if charging your iPod with your heart is not great, then what is? Yes, you read correctly: it is your own little human heart that could be doing the work of a charger, so that you can continue listening […]

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New Ceramic Material Makes Fuel Cells Capable of Using Normal Fuels

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:28:40 +0000

Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have invented a new type of ceramic material that could widen the uses of SOFCs, so they could also be used with a wide range of liquid or gaseous fuels, without the need of separating hydrogen or cleaning them.

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