this story intrigued meas how a body reaction and movement can generate electricity." This can be a possibility as the this body movement, beating of a human heart or simply the blood flow can be converted into electricity using nanowires made up of zinc oxide. Zinc-oxide...
This might change the world of nanotechnology as a hamster can power a nanogenerator out of the hamster running on the treadmill."They are manufacturing generators out of piezoelectric nanowires. The latest model in fact consists of zinc-oxide nanowires connected to one...
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Too clever by half! Scientists are developing a microneedle based on the proboscis of the female mosquito. The goal: painless injections. The difficulty lies in creating a needle that's thin enough to painessly...
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One problem with being a carbon-based lifeform is the imprecision of our dance moves, and our inability to provide our own lighting effects. However, that is now no longer an issue, as robots have been...
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With this technology, a pair of young lovers embracing on a cliff during a romantic windstorm could power the dead car battery that stranded them there in the first place."BOSTON (AP) — Someday, your shirt might...
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"It sounds like magic but it is really science.
The University of Utah Physics Department has developed a way for devices to take wasted heat derived from everyday processes and through converting the heat to...