{"id":6521,"date":"2008-02-20T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T08:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/use-your-shirt-to-charge-your-gadgets.html"},"modified":"2008-02-20T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T08:33:12","slug":"use-your-shirt-to-charge-your-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/use-your-shirt-to-charge-your-gadgets.html","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Shirt to charge your Gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/nanotechnology.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The promise of nanotechnology will allow us to easily charge our consumer electronics devices as we walk and move. Specifically, US scientists have developed a microfiber that charges devices as the fiber rubs against itself.<\/p>\n<p>This nanogenerator takes advantage of the semiconductive <span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\" id=\"lw_1202956240_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">properties  of zinc oxide<\/span> nanowires &#8212; tiny wires 1,000 times smaller than the width  of a human hair &#8212; embedded into the fabric. The wires are formed into pairs of  microscopic brush-like structures, shaped like a baby-bottle brush.<\/p>\n<p>One of the fibers in each pair is coated with gold and serves as an  electrode. As the bristles brush together through a person&#8217;s body movement, the  wires convert the mechanical motion into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>To be truly green, users could use clothes made of such fabrics and even carry a battery with them that charges as they walk. This battery power could be used to power other devices later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080213\/od_nm\/shirt_dc;_ylt=AhCTihHmzUov_ihS_edDBdUDW7oF\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promise of nanotechnology will allow us to easily charge our consumer electronics devices as we walk and move. Specifically, US scientists have developed a microfiber that charges devices as the fiber rubs against itself. This nanogenerator takes advantage of the semiconductive properties of zinc oxide nanowires &#8212; tiny wires 1,000 times smaller than the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,172,1674,188,116,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}