{"id":169770,"date":"2023-08-15T21:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T02:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/hand-held-tube-containing-aluminum-foil-balls-produces-enough-electricity-to-power-led-array-when-shaken"},"modified":"2023-08-15T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T02:22:32","slug":"hand-held-tube-containing-aluminum-foil-balls-produces-enough-electricity-to-power-led-array-when-shaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/hand-held-tube-containing-aluminum-foil-balls-produces-enough-electricity-to-power-led-array-when-shaken","title":{"rendered":"Hand-held tube containing aluminum foil balls produces enough electricity to power LED array when shaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xktTlxGEPG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of mechanical engineers from Chung-Ang University, Massachusetts General Hospital, LS Materials and Yonsei University has found that a hand-held cylinder containing crumpled aluminum foil balls is capable of producing enough electricity when shaken to light a small LED grid. In their paper published in the journal <i><i>Advanced Science<\/i>,<\/i> the group describes other materials used in the cylinder and possible uses for such a device.<\/p>\n<p>Prior research has shown that a wide variety of materials can be used to generate <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/static+electricity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">static electricity<\/a>, and that some constructions can capture that <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electricity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electricity<\/a>. Researchers have suggested such devices could be useful as the power needs of personal electronics decrease. In this new effort, the researchers have looked to aluminum foil as a material for generating static electricity and capturing it to power an external device.<\/p>\n<p>The device the team built is shaped as a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/cylinder\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cylinder<\/a> with a cap on the top and bottom\u2014about the size of a Pringle\u2019s can. The tube was made using an acrylic substrate covered with a polytetrafluoroethylene layer. The caps, which serve as electrodes, were made of aluminum. The team then crumpled three wads of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/aluminum+foil\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">aluminum foil<\/a> into balls and placed them inside the tube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of mechanical engineers from Chung-Ang University, Massachusetts General Hospital, LS Materials and Yonsei University has found that a hand-held cylinder containing crumpled aluminum foil balls is capable of producing enough electricity when shaken to light a small LED grid. In their paper published in the journal Advanced Science, the group describes other materials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169770","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}