A New Twist Toward Practical Energy Harvesting (VIDEO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Demonstration of how a twistron harvester could be used as a strain sensor. This type of sensor could be used for things such as monitoring breathing, if sewn into a shirt for example. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 25, 2017, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.H. Kim at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, and colleagues was titled, "Harvesting electrical energy from carbon nanotube yarn twist."

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S.H. Kim <i>et al., Science</i> (2017)

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