Harvesting temperature fluctuations as electrical energy using torsional and tensile polymer muscles

Abstract

Low-grade waste heat is harvested as electrical energy by employing thermally-powered torsional and tensile artificial muscles made from inexpensive polymer fibers used for fishing line and sewing thread.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Source ID
10.1039/c5ee02219c

Entities

People

  • Alan G. Macdiarmid
  • Carter S Haines
  • Changsoon Choi
  • Dong Qian
  • Geoffrey M Spinks
  • Hongbing Lu
  • Hyeon Jun Sim
  • John D. W. Madden
  • Mikhail E. Kozlov
  • Márcio D. Lima
  • Ray H. Baughman
  • Seon Jeong Kim
  • Shazed Aziz
  • Shi Hyeong Kim
  • Xuemin Wang

Organizations

  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science
  • Hanyang University
  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Army
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Texas at Dallas
  • University of Wollongong

Tags

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Industrial Economics
  • Polymer Science and Engineering.