{"id":34612,"date":"2017-02-16T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T18:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/material-can-turn-sunlight-heat-and-movement-into-electricity-all-at-once"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:12:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:12:49","slug":"material-can-turn-sunlight-heat-and-movement-into-electricity-all-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/material-can-turn-sunlight-heat-and-movement-into-electricity-all-at-once","title":{"rendered":"Material can turn sunlight, heat and movement into electricity\u2014all at once"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many forms of energy surround you: sunlight, the heat in your room and even your own movements. All that energy\u2014normally wasted\u2014can potentially help power your portable and wearable gadgets, from biometric sensors to smart watches. Now, researchers from the University of Oulu in Finland have found that a mineral with the perovskite crystal structure has the right properties to extract energy from multiple sources at the same time.<\/p>\n

Perovskites are a family of minerals, many of which have shown promise for harvesting one or two types of energy<\/a> at a time\u2014but not simultaneously. One family member may be good for solar cells, with the right properties for efficiently converting solar energy into electricity. Meanwhile, another is adept at harnessing energy from changes in temperature and pressure, which can arise from motion, making them so-called pyroelectric and piezoelectric materials, respectively.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, however, just one type of energy isn\u2019t enough. A given form of energy isn\u2019t always available\u2014maybe it\u2019s cloudy or you\u2019re in a meeting and can\u2019t get up to move around. Other researchers have developed devices that can harness multiple forms of energy, but they require multiple materials, adding bulk to what\u2019s supposed to be a small and portable device.<\/p>\n

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Many forms of energy surround you: sunlight, the heat in your room and even your own movements. All that energy\u2014normally wasted\u2014can potentially help power your portable and wearable gadgets, from biometric sensors to smart watches. Now, researchers from the University of Oulu in Finland have found that a mineral with the perovskite crystal structure has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1412,1633,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34612","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58697,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34612\/revisions\/58697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}