{"id":194196,"date":"2024-08-07T10:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nanoharvesting-unused-signals-such-as-wi-fi-into-energy-for-electronics"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:31:43","slug":"nanoharvesting-unused-signals-such-as-wi-fi-into-energy-for-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nanoharvesting-unused-signals-such-as-wi-fi-into-energy-for-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Nanoharvesting unused signals such as Wi-Fi Into energy for electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoharvesting-unused-signals-such-as-wi-fi-into-energy-for-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are constantly surrounded by electromagnetic waves such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals. What if we could turn the unused excess into usable energy? Researchers at Tohoku University, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Messina developed a novel technology to efficiently harvest ambient low-power radiofrequency (RF) signals into direct-current (DC) power. This \u2018rectifier\u2019 technology can be easily integrated into energy harvesting modules to power electronic devices and sensors, enabling battery-free operation.<\/p>\n<p>The results were published in Nature Electronics (\u201cNanoscale spin rectifiers for harvesting ambient radiofrequency energy\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Schematic illustration of a wireless network with energy-harvesting modules. RF signals that are unused by electronic gadgets and would otherwise go to waste are used to generate usable DC power to drive sensors and devices. (Image: Shunsuke Fukami &amp; Hyunsoo Yang) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are constantly surrounded by electromagnetic waves such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals. What if we could turn the unused excess into usable energy? Researchers at Tohoku University, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Messina developed a novel technology to efficiently harvest ambient low-power radiofrequency (RF) signals into direct-current (DC) power. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194196","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}