{"id":143409,"date":"2022-08-02T06:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-flexible-device-that-harvests-thermal-energy-to-power-wearable-electronics"},"modified":"2022-08-02T06:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:23:36","slug":"a-flexible-device-that-harvests-thermal-energy-to-power-wearable-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-flexible-device-that-harvests-thermal-energy-to-power-wearable-electronics","title":{"rendered":"A flexible device that harvests thermal energy to power wearable electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-flexible-device-that-harvests-thermal-energy-to-power-wearable-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wearable electronics, from health and fitness trackers to virtual reality headsets, are part of our everyday lives. But finding ways to continuously power these devices is a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>University of Washington researchers have developed an innovative solution: the first-of-its kind flexible, wearable thermoelectric device that converts <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/body+heat\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">body heat<\/a> to electricity. This device is soft and stretchable, yet sturdy and efficient\u2014properties that can be challenging to combine.<\/p>\n<p>The team published these findings July 24 in Advanced Energy Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable electronics, from health and fitness trackers to virtual reality headsets, are part of our everyday lives. But finding ways to continuously power these devices is a challenge. University of Washington researchers have developed an innovative solution: the first-of-its kind flexible, wearable thermoelectric device that converts body heat to electricity. This device is soft and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143409","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\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}