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Scientists develop nanogenerator produces electricity by touching
Scientists have developed a material that generates electricity by simply touching it like smartphones and tablets
The touchscreen gadgets not only generates electricity can also be used in clothing or shoes helping to harvest energy from the body movements potentially all day long.
Nanogenerator produces electricity by just a small scale physical change such as tap or swipe of finger
Nanogenerator works on the basic principle known as piezoelectricity in which the electric charge accumulates in response to applied mechanical stress.
The core structure is a silicon wafer, which is layered with thin sheets of other materials like silver, polyimide and polypropylene ferroelectret.
When pressure is applied to the device, the foam layer compresses, by creating a change called dipole moments which inturn generates electric charge.
