{"id":140668,"date":"2022-06-15T23:05:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T04:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ink-coating-could-enable-devices-powered-by-heat"},"modified":"2022-06-15T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T04:05:17","slug":"ink-coating-could-enable-devices-powered-by-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ink-coating-could-enable-devices-powered-by-heat","title":{"rendered":"Ink coating could enable devices powered by heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ink-coating-could-enable-devices-powered-by-heat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Sweden report that they are closing in on a way to replace batteries for wearables and low-power applications in the internet of things (IoT). The answer lies in an ink coating that enables low-grade heat, which is generated by devices, to be converted to electrical power.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing in Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces (\u201cThermoelectric Inks and Power Factor Tunability in Hybrid Films through All Solution Process\u201d), the researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm report that they have developed a promising blend of thermoelectric coating for devices that generate heat amounting to less than 100 oC.<\/p>\n<p>A piece of film is coated in thermoelectric ink. (Image: KTH The Royal Institute of Technology) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Sweden report that they are closing in on a way to replace batteries for wearables and low-power applications in the internet of things (IoT). The answer lies in an ink coating that enables low-grade heat, which is generated by devices, to be converted to electrical power. Publishing in Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces (\u201cThermoelectric [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140668","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}