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Micro Power Is Getting Bigger and Smaller
Driven by the vision of our society one day being basically self-propelled, a team of University of Houston scientists has set out to both amplify and provoke that potential in materials known as...
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Hydrogen Fuel from Sound
Sound is energy is motion whether in gasses, fluids or through solid materials it could be something worth pursuit. A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is on it with a new material made from...
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Batteries vs. Generators or Both
Tiny generators that could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless sensor would offset a bit of lithium and stacked might replace some of...
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A New Player In Waste Heat Recovery
According to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s 2008 report (a pdf), more than two-thirds of the fuel used to generate power in the United States is lost as heat. The report claims the U. S. has the...
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Progress on the Thermoelectric Front
Researchers from Boston College, MIT, Clemson University and the University of Virginia have used a nanotechnology processing technology to achieve a 60 to 90 percent increase in the thermoelectric...
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Harvesting Power From Vibrations
University of Michigan electrical engineers have built a piezoelectric generator that can harness energy from vibrations and convert it to electricity with five to 10 times greater efficiency and power...
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Piezoelectric Power Grows Ten Times
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has discovered a new material that has 10 times the piezoelectric effect of crystals and ceramics making it suitable for perhaps hundreds of everyday uses. A...
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An Engineered Virus Makes Electricity
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity using the...
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Mechanical Energy to a Battery in One Step
Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology leads a team that has developed a self-charging power cell that directly...
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A Big Improvement in Thermoelectric Material
Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) can now produce a new and considerably more efficient class of thermoelectric material. The new molecular structure of the material has a...
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A Modified Piezoelectric Effect Generates More Power
Georgia Tech scientists working on a miniature generator based on an electrical energy generating phenomenon called the piezoelectric effect produced more power than expected – with a new idea called...
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A Generator for Your Shoes
Scientists at the Center for Research in Advanced Materials (CIMAV) have developed a device that fits inside a pair of shoes that harvests the energy made available when someone walks. This energy is...
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Stretching Plastic Makes Electricity or Power It as a Motor
University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) researchers reported progress on a novel form of a new plastic at the 249th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The...
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Stretching Elastic Generates Electricity
A research team has developed a hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvesting device called a nanogenerator. A team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials Science and...
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Fish Scales Used to Build Energy Harvester
Researchers in India at Jadavpur University in Koltata explored and found a way to recycle fish byproducts into an energy harvester for self-powered electronics. The basic premise behind the...
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Ten Fold Increase Expected In Piezoelectric Energy Harvest
Penn State researchers believe they have developed a 10-fold increase in the ability to harvest mechanical and thermal energy over standard piezoelectric composites. The new system may be possible...
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Someday Electrical Power Could Come From Your Clothes
University of Bath scientists have discovered a way to generate electricity from nylon – the stretchy fabric used widely in sportswear and other shape-hugging apparel – raising hopes that our clothes...
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An Electricity Generator Made From Baking Soda and Starch
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology scientists have used a compound made from a...
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Healthy Electric Current Production Inside The Human Body
Tel-Aviv University researchers have developed an innovative material that is eco-friendly, completely biological and non-toxic, and causes no harm to the body’s tissues. The material is as strong as...
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Wood Floors Can Be Engineered to Produce Electrical Current
Researchers from Switzerland are tapping into an unexpected energy source right under our feet – wood flooring. Their nanogenerator has been presented in the journal Matter. The nanogenerator enables...
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