Art of paper-cutting inspires self-charging paper device
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 08:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Despite the many advances in portable electronic devices, one thing remains constant: the need to plug them into a wall socket to recharge. Now researchers, reporting in the journal ACS Nano, have developed a light-weight, paper-based device inspired by the Chinese and Japanese arts of paper-cutting that can harvest and store energy from body movements.