{"id":120365,"date":"2021-03-09T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/wearable-microgrid-uses-the-human-body-to-sustainably-power-small-gadgets"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:22:17","slug":"wearable-microgrid-uses-the-human-body-to-sustainably-power-small-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/wearable-microgrid-uses-the-human-body-to-sustainably-power-small-gadgets","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wearable microgrid\u2019 uses the human body to sustainably power small gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wearable-microgrid-uses-the-human-body-to-sustainably-power-small-gadgets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a \u201cwearable microgrid\u201d that harvests and stores energy from the human body to power small electronics. It consists of three main parts: sweat-powered biofuel cells, motion-powered devices called triboelectric generators, and energy-storing supercapacitors. All parts are flexible, washable and can be screen printed onto clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The technology, reported in a paper published Mar. 9 in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, draws inspiration from community microgrids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re applying the concept of the microgrid to create <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/wearable\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wearable<\/a> systems that are powered sustainably, reliably and independently,\u201d said co-first author Lu Yin, a nanoengineering Ph.D. student at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. \u201cJust like a city microgrid integrates a variety of local, renewable power sources like wind and solar, a wearable microgrid integrates devices that locally harvest energy from different parts of the body, like sweat and movement, while containing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+storage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy storage<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a \u201cwearable microgrid\u201d that harvests and stores energy from the human body to power small electronics. It consists of three main parts: sweat-powered biofuel cells, motion-powered devices called triboelectric generators, and energy-storing supercapacitors. All parts are flexible, washable and can be screen printed onto clothing. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120365","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=120365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}