A Scanning Electron Microscopy Image of the Piezoelectric Zinc Oxide Nanowires (IMAGE)

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A Scanning Electron Microscopy Image of the Piezoelectric Zinc Oxide Nanowires

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A scanning electron microscopy image of the piezoelectric zinc oxide nanowires. The two sets of nanowires meet teeth-to-teeth, allowing the gold-coated microfibers scrub those not coated with gold to produce electricity via a coupled piezoelectric-semiconducting process. This is the fundamental concept of a "power shirt."

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Image courtesy of Prof. Z.L. Wang and Dr. X.D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology.

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