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Using as their basis a system published today in Nature Communications1, mechanical engineers Tom Krupenkin and Ashley Taylor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison are now developing 'in-shoe technology' that could generate up to 10 watts of power per footstep.
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To test his idea, Krupenkin placed patches of electrodes coated very thinly with the dielectric tantalum oxide along tiny channels a few millimetres wide. Using a resistor to convert electrical charge to alternating current, Krupenkin was able to harvest electrical energy from drops of either mercury or galinstan, a gallium-based alloy as they were moved along these channels and over the electrodes.
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"Usually in electrowetting we apply voltage to move things. Here it is the other way round," says Frieder Mugele, an expert in electrowetting from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, who was not involved with the work. "I would have liked to have had this idea myself," he concedes.
The amount of power generated increased in proportion to the number of droplets used. So far, Krupenkin has got up to 150 droplets, which produced a few milliwatts of power. But he has extrapolated his experimental data and calculated that in a device with 1,000 droplets, which would easily fit into an area of 40 centimetres squared,[url=http://duveticaitaliaoutlet.webmium.com/][b]duvetica usa outlet[/b][/url], up to 10 watts could be generated.
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Neil White, an electronics expert at the University of Southampton, UK, says it will be impressive if the scaled-up device really can produce 10 watts, adding: "I haven't seen anything like this before." White remains cautious, though, and would like to see more work looking at whether some of those 10 watts might be coming from the piezoelectric properties of the tantalum oxide,[url=http://rogervivieronlinesale.olimx.com/][b]cheap 2013 roger vivier online sale[/b][/url], rather than from its interaction with the droplets.
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