Fish scales extracted from food waste have been used to build tiny generators that can convert mechanical energy, such as a touch or sound vibrations, to electrical energy. The work was done by ...

Well, it's not the kind of generator you can rent, but it is made to convert mechanical energy into electric energy, but on a very small scale. Sep 9, 2016 Fish scales extracted from food waste have ...

Researchers from Columbia University and the Georgia Institute of Technology are laying claim to having observed piezoelectricity in an atomically thin material for the first time. The effect was ...

Researchers have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide, resulting in a unique electric generator ...

Bioengineers have developed biocompatible generators that create electrical pulses when compressed by body motions. The generators are made up of self-assembling "piezoelectric wafers" which can be ...

Drums! You hit them, and they vibrate. It’s kind of fun. Piezoelectric elements can create electric current when they vibrate. [Will Dana] put two and two together to try and charge his phone on his ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Piezoelectric Devices Market by Material (Piezoelectric Ceramics, Crystals, Polymers), Product (Piezoelectric Actuators, Transducers ...

There are untold energy sources all around us, if we can just figure out how to tap into them. Swiss researchers have now demonstrated an environmentally friendly way to make spongy wood flooring that ...

Piezoelectric phenomena have been widely observed in natural materials like bones 1,2, collagen 3,4, viruses 5,6 and a variety of protein-based materials 7. Although significant progress has been made ...

Earlier this month, I attended the first nanoPower Forum on energy harvesting, hosted by market research firm the Darnell Group. I later received a press release from IMEC, a Dutch research center in ...