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Power Shirt: - Generates Watts As You Walk
Power Shirt: - Generates Watts As You Walk
Power Shirt: - Generates Watts As You Walk
Power shirt
-generates watts as you walk
Introduction:
Two sets of Zinc oxide
The fibre-based nanogenerator
nanowires meet teeth to teeth,
would be a simple and
allowing the gold coated micro
economical way to harvest
fibres to scrub those not coated
energy from the physical
with gold. This generates
movement.
electricity by the so called Piezo-
Electric effect, the fundamental
Nanotechnology is the
concept behind “Power Shirt”.
engineering of functional
systems at the molecular
scale.
Fundamental Principle:
References:
• http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/02/14/2162969.htm
• http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/304590/Power+shirt.htm
• http:// www.gatech.edu
• http://www.nanoscience.gatech.edu/zlwang/paper/paperlist2008.html
• http://www.deviceguru.com/2008/02/16/the-ultimate-power-shirt/