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Movie technology inspires Wearable Liquid unit that aims to Harvest Energy

A Purdue University team created wearable technology to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. (Image provided)

Technology designed to advance self-powering devices such as consumer electronics and defense innovations. A fascination with movie technology that showed robots perform self-repair through a liquid formula inspired a Purdue University professor to make his own discoveries – which are now helping to lead the way for advancements in self-powering devices such as consumer electronics and defense innovations.

The Purdue team, led by Wenzhuo Wu, the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, has created wearable technology to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy.
“Our work presents an important step toward the practical...

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