{"id":171,"date":"2010-07-20T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-07-20T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:36:04","slug":"cornell-nanotech-company-to-develop-self-charging-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Cornell, Nanotech Company to Develop Self-Charging Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To meet an expanding demand for autonomous power for wireless sensors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microgensystems.com\/\">MicroGen Systems LLC<\/a>, of Ithaca, New York and Cornell University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emc2.cornell.edu\/\">Energy Materials Center<\/a> (emc2) have agreed to develop self-charging batteries that use background vibrations for their energy source.<\/p>\n<p>The battery, say the partners, will look like a microchip, but with a vibrating core, which will harvest energy from almost anything that shakes. The self-charging batteries can be used in smart energy systems for industrial equipment, lighting control, monitors of the structural integrity of bridges and roads, and sensors for monitoring onboard vehicle systems.<\/p>\n<p>Microgen&#8217;s systems are based on piezoelectric vibrational energy harvester technology, which captures electrical energy generated by oscillating mechanical strains.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will enable MicroGen systems to receive financial support from the New York State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpi.edu\/cfes\/\">Center for Future Energy Systems<\/a>, with the Cornell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnf.cornell.edu\/\">NanoScale Science and Technology Facility<\/a>, and emc2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To meet an expanding demand for autonomous power for wireless sensors, MicroGen Systems LLC, of Ithaca, New York and Cornell University&#8217;s Energy Materials Center (emc2) have agreed to develop self-charging batteries that use background vibrations for their energy source. The battery, say the partners, will look like a microchip, but with a vibrating core, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[18,26],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","category-products","tag-nanotechnology","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}