Home > Press > How schools of microswimmers can increase their cargo capacity: Researchers describe how groups of microscopic, self-propelled droplets can transport more material through narrow channels using a process called collective hydrodynamic entrainmentInspired by observations made at the Georgia Aquarium, a new study by Penns Arnold Mathijssen and...
Nanogenerators harvest enough energy from wooden floor to power lightbulbs
Sep 02, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Switzerland are tapping into an unexpected energy source right under our feet: wooden floorings. Their nanogenerator, presented in the journal Matter ("Functionalized wood with tunable tribopolarity for efficient triboelectric nanogenerators"), enables wood to generate energy from our footfalls. They also improved the wood...