Remarkable new nano-fiber clothing may someday power your iPod

User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)

Georgia Tech Professor Zhong Lin Wang shows a microfiber nanogenerator composed of a pair of entangled fibers. Both fibers are coated with zinc oxide nanowires one fiber is additionally coated with gold. When rubbed together they generate electrical ...
Georgia Tech Professor Zhong Lin Wang shows a microfiber nanogenerator composed of a pair of entangled fibers. Both fibers are coated with zinc oxide nanowires; one fiber is additionally coated with gold. When rubbed together, they generate electrical current. Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek

Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a “power shirt” able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy.


Full story »
All News summaries from Nanotechnology news
All News summaries for February 13, 2008

Research helps understand factors that influence efficiency of organic-based devices

Jul 08, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Organic-based devices, such as organic light-emitting diodes, require a transparent conductive layer with a high work function, meaning it promotes injection of electron holes into an organic layer to produce ...

Researchers report finer lines for microchips: Advance could lead to next-generation computer chips, solar cells

Jul 08, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
MIT researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger ...

Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind'

Jul 08, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Theoretical physicists from Lancaster University in the UK have designed a nanomotor that operates by a novel mechanism: an electron wind.

'Smart bomb' nanoparticle strategy impacts metastasis

Jul 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
A new treatment strategy using molecular "smart bombs" to target metastasis with anti-cancer drugs leads to good results using significantly lower doses of toxic chemotherapy, with less collateral damage to surrounding tissue, ...

A better image for plastic solar cells

Jul 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
A new way to help technologists develop efficient and inexpensive plastic electronic devices, such as plastic solar cells and a new type of transistor was showcased by physicist Andrea Liscio, who is supported ...
Goto Archive PhysOrg Forum Goto Archive Video Goto Archive Editorials Goto Archive Free Magazines Goto Archive Newsletter

News Archive