New design makes better Wearable Thermoelectric Generators to power biosensors
Using flexible conducting polymers and novel circuitry patterns printed on paper, researchers have demonstrated proof-of-concept wearable thermoelectric generators that can harvest energy from body heat to power simple biosensors for measuring heart rate, respiration or other factors. Above – Electrical conductivity is measured for a thermoelectric polymer film in the laboratory of Shannon Yee at …