World’s smallest piezoelectric generator is only one atom wide On October 15th, 2014 team, which involved researches and engineers, both from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology, revealed, that they have made the first thinnest electric generator. This was published online, in Nature, by lead author Wenzhou Wu...
One of the future inventions that could greatly impact our lives are nanoribbons. Rubber films developed by engineers at Princeton University could power mobile devices and other electronic devices. The silicone sheets are embedded with ceramic nanoribbons (piezoelectric ribbons) that generate electricity when flexed, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy....
A team of researchers from the US and China have developed a synthetic ‘skin’ capable of sensing pressure with a similar sensitivity to the human fingertip. The technology could bring us one step closer to a smart skin for the robotics industry, allowing devices to ‘feel’ their environment. Using vertical...
