{"id":91541,"date":"2019-06-02T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/flexible-generators-turn-movement-into-energy"},"modified":"2019-06-02T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:22:43","slug":"flexible-generators-turn-movement-into-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/flexible-generators-turn-movement-into-energy","title":{"rendered":"Flexible generators turn movement into energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pbm6diOqpzg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wearable devices that harvest energy from movement are not a new idea, but a material created at Rice University may make them more practical.<\/p>\n<p>The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has adapted laser-induced graphene (LIG) into small, metal-free devices that generate electricity. Like rubbing a balloon on hair, putting LIG composites in contact with other surfaces produces <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/static+electricity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">static electricity<\/a> that can be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/power+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For that, thank the triboelectric effect, by which <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> gather a charge through contact. When they are put together and then pulled apart, surface charges build up that can be channeled toward <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/power+generation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-flexible-movement-energy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable devices that harvest energy from movement are not a new idea, but a material created at Rice University may make them more practical. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has adapted laser-induced graphene (LIG) into small, metal-free devices that generate electricity. Like rubbing a balloon on hair, putting LIG composites in contact with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91541","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}