Borrowing from whales to engineer a new fluid sensor

Monday, March 2, 2015 - 09:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers have borrowed from biological structures called tubercles that humpback whales use to maneuver in the ocean to make a piezoelectric energy harvester for use as an airflow or fluid speed and direction-sensing device.

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