New forms of highly efficient, flexible nanogenerator technology (power, electric, material)

[Brian.Pearson]

The KAIST and GIT team developed a power generation technology using bendable thin film nano-materials

IMAGE: Flexible thin film nanomaterials produce electricity.

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The team of Prof. Keon Jae Lee (KAIST, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering) and Prof. Zhong Lin Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering) has developed new forms of highly efficient, flexible nanogenerator technology using the freely bendable piezoelectric ceramic thin film nano-materials that can convert tiny movements of the human body (such as heart beats and blood flow) into electrical energy.