Can't get your smartphone battery to last through the day? Worried your phone may lose power while you're away from an outlet? Dr. Zhong Lin Wang, Regents' Professor and Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, talks about his work to keep the juice flowing using body movement in today's Wall Street Journal.
Zhong Lin Wang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is tackling a new kind of power suit—made from fabric that uses nanotechnology to generate energy as the body moves around.
Any wrinkle in shirts, pants—even undergarments—made with the fabric produces a charge, he says. The trick involves super-slim wires, measuring one-thousandth the width of a strand of hair, that are woven into the fabric. When the specially treated plastic and zinc material moves, it creates mechanical energy that can be harvested by a capacitor, so nobody gets shocked.
Wang's self-powering clothes are at least two years away, he says.
Read the full article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020466220457719867246056760...
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Self-powering clothes
It would be great if Dr. Wang had prototypes of his clothing so that he could do a "show and tell."
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