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Abstract:
Nanotechnology has huge potential. But nano size machines will need a power source
that is better than batteries and measures just billionths of a meter. The good news is that the
waste energy, produced by our body in the form of vibrations or even the human pulse, could
provide sufficient power to run such tiny gadgets. Arrays of piezoelectric nanowires could
capture and transmit that waste energy to nanodevices. These power plants are called
nanogenerators. The human body is a source of power in the form of mechanical energy, heat
energy, vibration energy, chemical energy (in the form of glucose) and hydraulic energy of the
circulatory system. Just a small fraction of this energy when converted in to electricity, is
sufficient to power many types of nanodevices, as nanodevices consume very little power in the
range of nanowatts to microwatts. Other than body movement, various routes are being tried by
researchers for power generation on mini scale. Some of these are random vibrations or
motions near a road way, temperature gradient (ground temperature several meters below the
surface is fairly constant where as ambient temperature varies), biochemistry and external
energy sources such as ultrasonic waves and audible noises
Introduction:
Batteries Are used in medical
devices implanted in a human body, such
as an artificial heart and a pacemaker. In
the case of an artificial heart, its battery
should be continuously charged by a
transformer through the skin. On the other
hand, a battery of a pacemaker does not
need continuous charging because of its
small power consumption, however, it
should be periodically replaced with a
new one by a surgical operation which a
patient should bear physically, mentally and
economically. In order to remove the
sufferings of patients, we propose here a
novel electric power supply system to
the batteries connected to
low power
consumption devices implanted, without
the periodical operations. The battery
charging is carried out with
a low
frequency rotating magnetic field.
In
addition, the magnetic ~ field intensity
a battery of a
References
[1] Z.L. Wang and J.H. Song
"Piezoelectric
Nanogenerators Based on Zinc
Oxide Nanowire Arrays",Science, 312
(2006) 242-246.
[2] P.X. Gao, J.H. Song, J. Liu and
Z.L. Wang "NanowireNanogenerators on