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How do you Power Billions of Sensors? By Converting Waste Heat into Electricity

This image shows the external appearance of the developed compact, ultra-lightweight flexible thermoelectric conversion device. Credit: Osaka University

Interconnected healthcare and many other future applications will require internet connectivity between billions of sensors. The devices that will enable these applications must be small, flexible, reliable, and environmentally sustainable. Researchers must develop new tools beyond batteries to power these devices, because continually replacing batteries is difficult and expensive.

In a study published in Advanced Materials Technologies, researchers from Osaka University have revealed how the thermoelectric effect, or converting temperature differences into electricity, can be optimally used to power small, flexible devices...

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