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Power Generating Fabrics - PowerFelt: WFU researchers have developed a new fabric that generates power from the heat and motion of the human body (among other things). Reported in the NY Times as one of 32 inventions that will “change your life” (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/03/magazine/innovations-issue.html?emc=eta1) researchers at Wake Forest’s NanoCenter have devised a unique way of combining p-doped and n-doped nanotube composites to form essentially a nonwoven fabric (like a felt). Learn more from the original publication in NanoLetters (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl203806q).
the FIPEL - field induced polymer electroluminescent lighting: A new lighting system that promises perfect color control, high efficiency, and inexpensive manufacturing. more...
Dr. Yuan Li’s textbook, based on work at NanoCenterw, featured in Nature, more...
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PowerFelt: a power producing fabric developed at NanoCenter (courtesy Corey Hewitt)
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Department of Physics
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC 27109
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FIPEL: a new lighting system developed at NanoCenter (courtesy Ken Bennett)
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