Tech Shout!

Day in an day out something breathtakingly new is being developed and invented. Likewise US scientists have now developed a new self-powered nanotechnology that generates power by fibres. Scientists claim that movements in a person’s clothing or even by wind blowing against a tent can generate power.

The new technology works like this. The nano-generators consist of pairs of fibres, which are as tiny as bendable bottle-brushes. The ends of every fibre are equipped with a Kevlar stalk and each of this wire is made of zinc oxide.

Scientists placed these in fibres smart clothes that could generate power when worn.

“Airflows, vibrations - all these are mechanical energy that we can harvest to power devices,” said Professor Zhong Lin Wang and team, the Georgia Institute of Technology in the journal Nature.

“It could perhaps be used to power tiny medical devices like a true cochlear implant or heart pacemaker, or a delivery mechanism for subcutaneous drug delivery implants or antibiotic drug reservoirs for preventing infection in retinal implants,” said Ottilia Saxl, chief executive of the Institute of Nanotechnology.

The power generated by nano-technology produced enough power to charge an MP3 player. We must say that this is one of the eco-friendly ways of generating powers especially in an era, where humans are in search of non-conventional sources.