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