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Electricity-Generating Smart Materials

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Electricity-generating smart materials include materials and products that are able to generate an electric current with a connected consumer (e.g. a resistance load) in response to one or more stimuli from outside influences, the effect of light, or changes in temperature and/or pressure.

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(2007). Electricity-Generating Smart Materials. In: Smart Materials. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8227-8_7

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