The team has much bigger goals than lighting up shoes or bike helmets, though. Researchers develop innovative shoe material that can generate electricity with every step: 'We are excited and ...

Bioprinting is a technology used to create three-dimensional structures, such as human tissues or organs, using bio-inks made ...

MEMS, wearable/implantable electronics and bio-tissue therapeutics, the pursuit of piezoelectric biomaterials has become a ...

While other piezoelectric materials currently exist, this is one of the few high-performing ones that does not contain lead, making it an excellent candidate for use in machines, infrastructure as ...

Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and at the University of Magdeburg, Germany, made a big leap as they demonstrated a nanomechanical resonator made of tensile-strained aluminum ...

Mechanical resonators, tools that vibrate at precise frequencies, have advanced dramatically over time. Now scaled down to ...

Introduction Piezoelectric devices leverage the piezoelectric effect, where certain materials, such as quartz and ceramics, produce an e ...

Spurred by advances in energy-harvesting materials, a new generation of advanced implantable biomedical devices is emerging ...

The atoms of amorphous solids like glass have no ordered structure; they arrange themselves randomly, like scattered grains ...

Magnetostrictive materials change shape when magnetized, whereas piezoelectric materials produce an electrical current when subjected to mechanical strain. Upon being exposed to an externally ...