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Energy-harvesting devices

Beyond the battery

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A wide variety of nanomaterials are being explored in the search for technologies that can extract energy from the environment to generate electrical power for sensors and other devices.

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Figure 1: Leader of the pack.

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  1. Bruce E. White Jr is in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902, USA. bruce.white@binghamton.edu,

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White, B. Beyond the battery. Nature Nanotech 3, 71–72 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.19

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