Piezoelectric Nanowires in Energy Harvesting Applications

Figure 13

The application of single wire nanogenerator for harvesting the biomechanical energies. (a) Finger bending. (b) Hamster running. (c) Rat breath. (d) Rat heartbeat. (e) I-V characteristic. (f) Generated current from the heartbeat of rat. [Reproduced from [63, 64] with the permission from American Chemical Society and Copyright WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.]