{"id":193064,"date":"2024-07-17T01:25:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T06:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/first-health-care-device-powered-by-body-heat-made-possible-by-liquid-based-metals"},"modified":"2024-07-17T01:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T06:25:36","slug":"first-health-care-device-powered-by-body-heat-made-possible-by-liquid-based-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/first-health-care-device-powered-by-body-heat-made-possible-by-liquid-based-metals","title":{"rendered":"First health care device powered by body heat made possible by liquid based metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-health-care-device-powered-by-body-heat-made-possible-by-liquid-based-metals3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the age of technology everywhere, we are all too familiar with the inconvenience of a dead battery. But for those relying on a wearable health care device to monitor glucose, reduce tremors, or even track heart function, taking time to recharge can pose a big risk.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers in Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Department of Mechanical Engineering have shown that a health care device can be powered using <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/body+heat\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">body heat<\/a> alone. By combining a pulse oximetry sensor with a flexible, stretchable, wearable thermoelectric energy generator composed of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/liquid+metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liquid metal<\/a>, semiconductors, and 3D printed rubber, the team has introduced a promising way to address battery life concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first step towards battery-free wearable electronics,\u201d said Mason Zadan, Ph.D. candidate and first author of the research <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adfm.202404861\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Advanced Functional Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the age of technology everywhere, we are all too familiar with the inconvenience of a dead battery. But for those relying on a wearable health care device to monitor glucose, reduce tremors, or even track heart function, taking time to recharge can pose a big risk. For the first time, researchers in Carnegie Mellon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1497,1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-energy","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193064","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=193064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}