{"id":114763,"date":"2020-10-20T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/energy-scavenging-nanogenerator-finds-power-all-around-us"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:03:31","slug":"energy-scavenging-nanogenerator-finds-power-all-around-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/energy-scavenging-nanogenerator-finds-power-all-around-us","title":{"rendered":"Energy scavenging nanogenerator finds power all around us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-scavenging-nanogenerator-finds-power-all-around-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn\u2019t need a wireless or mains power source. Or a pacemaker with inbuilt organic energy sources within the human body.<\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers led by Flinders University are picking up the challenge of \u201cscavenging\u201d invisible power from low-frequency vibrations in the surrounding environment, including wind, air or even contact-separation energy (static electricity).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese so-called triboelectric nanogenerators (or TENGs) can be made at low cost in different configurations, making them suitable for driving <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/small+electronics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">small electronics<\/a> such as personal electronics (mobile phones), biomechanics devices (pacemakers), sensors (temperature\/pressure\/chemical sensors), and more,\u201d says Professor Youhong Tang, from Flinders University\u2019s College of Science and Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn\u2019t need a wireless or mains power source. Or a pacemaker with inbuilt organic energy sources within the human body. Australian researchers led by Flinders University are picking up the challenge of \u201cscavenging\u201d invisible power from low-frequency vibrations in the surrounding environment, including wind, air or even contact-separation energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1512,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}