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

Published:2015 Issue:11 Volume:8 Page:3336-3344
ISSN:1754-5692
Container-title:Energy & Environmental Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Energy Environ. Sci.

Author:

Kim Shi Hyeong¹²³⁴,Lima Márcio D.⁵⁶⁷⁸,Kozlov Mikhail E.⁵⁶⁷⁸,Haines Carter S.⁵⁶⁷⁸,Spinks Geoffrey M.⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³,Aziz Shazed⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³,Choi Changsoon¹²³⁴,Sim Hyeon Jun¹²³⁴,Wang Xuemin¹⁴⁶⁷⁸,Lu Hongbing¹⁴⁶⁷⁸,Qian Dong¹⁴⁶⁷⁸,Madden John D. W.¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸,Baughman Ray H.⁵⁶⁷⁸,Kim Seon Jeong¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. Center for Bio-Artificial Muscle and Department of Biomedical Engineering

2. Hanyang University

3. Seoul 133-791

4. South Korea

5. Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute

6. University of Texas at Dallas

7. Richardson

8. USA

9. Intelligent Polymer Research Institute

10. ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science

11. University of Wollongong

12. Wollongong

13. Australia

14. Department of Mechanical Engineering

15. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Advanced Material and Process Engineering Laboratory

16. University of British Columbia

17. Vancouver

18. Canada

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.

Funder

Office of Naval Research

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Pollution,Nuclear Energy and Engineering,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Environmental Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/EE/C5EE02219C

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