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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:48:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Remarkable New Clothing May Someday Power Your iPod®

Remarkable New Clothing May Someday Power Your iPod®

A scanning electron microscopy image showing piezoelectric zinc oxide nanowires

Nanotechnology researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing a shirt that harvests energy from the wearer's physical motion and converts it into electricity for powering small electronic devices worn by soldiers in the field, hikers and other users.

The research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and described in the Feb. 14 issue of Nature, details how pairs of textile fibers covered with zinc oxide nanowires generate electricity in response ...

More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111038&govDel=USNSF_51


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