{"id":221361,"date":"2025-09-03T04:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-unveil-a-rubber-band-that-generates-electricity-from-body-heat"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:26:22","slug":"scientists-unveil-a-rubber-band-that-generates-electricity-from-body-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-unveil-a-rubber-band-that-generates-electricity-from-body-heat","title":{"rendered":"Scientists unveil a rubber band that generates electricity from body heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unveil-a-rubber-band-that-generates-electricity-from-body-heat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by scientists from Peking University has developed a rubber-like material that converts body heat into electricity. This advance could allow the next generation of wearable electronics to generate their own power continuously without the need for bulky batteries or constant recharging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thermoelectric elastomers combine skin-like elasticity with high energy conversion efficiency, paving the way for next-generation self-powered wearables,\u201d the team said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by scientists from Peking University has developed a rubber-like material that converts body heat into electricity. This advance could allow the next generation of wearable electronics to generate their own power continuously without the need for bulky batteries or constant recharging. \u201cOur thermoelectric elastomers combine skin-like elasticity with high energy conversion efficiency, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221361","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=221361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}