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Date of publication: 3 March 2008
Power shirt harvests energy from physical movement
Georgia Tech Regents’ Professor Zhong Lin Wang holds a prototype microfiber nanogenerator. (Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek)
Nanotechnology researchers are developing a “power shirt” with the ability to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy.
