Within this decade there have been numerous innovations with technology and electronics. One of these innovations is computers or electronics that are made to be worn on the human body. Yet, there have been difficulties in powering these devices and still keeping them light and flexible. Researchers from KAIST, headed by Byung Jin Cho, are developing a thermoelectric (TE) generator from glass fabric that will be able to generate electricity from the heat given off from the human body. There are currently TE generators out on the market but they are either low-powered or too bulky and heavy to be anything more than a nuisance to carry around. Cho and his team are developing a TE generator that will be designed to be light and flexible in order to create the most efficient mobile electronic and produce the maximum power output while keeping the loss of thermal energy at a minimum. The glass fabric of the generator is held together by a mixture of pastes made from inorganic material that was designed by Cho and his team of researchers. Cho believes that this technology will create a new generation of generators that could be installed in more up-scale devices. For more information on the new and improved TE generator read this article posted in ScienceDaily.
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