Nanogenerator, made more simply, powers LCD

摘要

Capping a five-year effort, a team of five researchers -Youfan Hu, Yan Zhang, Chen Xu, Guang Zhu, and Zhong Lin Wang -from the School of Material Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have created a flexible, energy-harvesting nanoscale generator capable of powering a conventional electronic devices, in this instance, a liquid crystal numeric display. The researchers have also developed a fabrication technique that is relatively simple, and could scale for volume manufacturing.