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Innovation, Medical Devices

New Device Harnesses Heartbeats to Power Medical Implants

June 9, 2016

Via: Medgadget

A team of researchers working in China and the U.S. has developed an electric generator that attaches to the heart to power an implantable cardiac monitor. The implantable triboelectric nanogenerator (iTENG) harnesses the actual physical movement of the heart to […]