Highly efficient wearable, stretchable piezoelectric harvests 280 times more electricity than conventional devices

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1068334

"highly piezoelectric efficient lead zirconate titanate... ovecomes being hard/ brittle, so insensitive to deformation... curvature-specific coupling divides electrode into different sections so that electrical energy not canceled out, leading to an energy efficiency that is 280 times higher than that of conventional stretching piezoelectric energy harvesters... wearable energy harvester"

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