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Generating power with a thin, flexible thermoelectric film | Device could be integrated into clothing, harvest body heat to power gadgets.
Device could be integrated into clothing, harvest body heat to power gadgets.
“The power generated by the flexible thermoelectric film we have created would not be enough to charge a smartphone but should be enough to keep a smartwatch going,” said Zhi-Gang Chen, a professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Flexible thermoelectric devices, on the other hand, were perfectly wearable but offered efficiencies that made them good for low-power health-monitoring electronics rather than more power-hungry hardware like smartwatches. To test what the film could do, the team manually cut a small sample out of an A4 size sheet of the material and fitted it with silver paste electrodes connected to measuring equipment.
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