{"id":206118,"date":"2025-02-11T07:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/stretchy-devices-spin-electricity-from-body-heat"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:17:58","slug":"stretchy-devices-spin-electricity-from-body-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/stretchy-devices-spin-electricity-from-body-heat","title":{"rendered":"Stretchy Devices Spin Electricity from Body Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stretchy-devices-spin-electricity-from-body-heat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phones, appliances, and humans all generate heat that usually escapes into the environment as waste energy. Thermoelectric generators, which convert temperature differences into electricity, are a way to capture that wasted heat for power.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have now made a <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/thermoelectric-generator\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">thermoelectric generator<\/a> (TEG) that is soft and <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/a-thermoelectric-generator-for-wearable-tech\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">stretchy<\/a> and that biodegrades completely when exposed to the environment. Unlike conventional rigid thermoelectric devices, this one, reported in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/full\/10.1126\/sciadv.adf5883\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Science Advances<\/a>,<\/em> could be easily integrated into fabrics, allowing for body-heat-powered wearable sensors or temperature-detecting disposable face masks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phones, appliances, and humans all generate heat that usually escapes into the environment as waste energy. Thermoelectric generators, which convert temperature differences into electricity, are a way to capture that wasted heat for power. Researchers have now made a thermoelectric generator (TEG) that is soft and stretchy and that biodegrades completely when exposed to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206118","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=206118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}