{"id":202427,"date":"2024-12-26T06:04:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/breakthrough-brings-body-heat-powered-wearable-devices-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2024-12-26T06:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T12:04:14","slug":"breakthrough-brings-body-heat-powered-wearable-devices-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/breakthrough-brings-body-heat-powered-wearable-devices-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Brings Body-Heat Powered Wearable Devices Closer to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-brings-body-heat-powered-wearable-devices-closer-to-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A QUT-led research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for batteries.<\/p>\n<p>This technology could also be used to cool electronic chips, helping smartphones and computers run more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qut.edu.au\/about\/our-people\/academic-profiles\/zhigang.chen\" target=\"_blank\"> Professor Zhi-Gang Chen<\/a>, whose team\u2019s new research was published in the prestigious journal <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.ads5868\" target=\"_blank\"><em> <i>Science<\/i> <\/em><\/a>, said the breakthrough tackled a major challenge in creating flexible thermoelectric devices that converted body heat into power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A QUT-led research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for batteries. This technology could also be used to cool electronic chips, helping smartphones and computers run more efficiently. Professor Zhi-Gang Chen, whose team\u2019s new research was published in the prestigious journal Science [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202427","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=202427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}