wet thin film Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:57:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Wet-Powered Thin Film Generates Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wet-powered-thin-film-generates-electricity-20130114/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wet-powered-thin-film-generates-electricity-20130114/#respond Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:57:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31360 Given the right circumstances, we’ve probably all seen a piece of paper curl up when wet. Could this motion be put to work, that is, generate electricity? Scientists have noticed this wet curling effect in various polymers, but never something that could be said to perform work, such as with polypyrrole. Robert Langer at Massachusetts […]

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