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CONIX Research Center, one of six centers in JUMP, a Semiconductor Research
Corporation (SRC) program sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Defense's
Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA). The work is also based,
in part, on research sponsored by the Air
Force Research Laboratory under agree-

ment number FA8650-15-2-5401, as conducted through the Flexible Hybrid
Electronics Manufacturing Innovation
Institute, NextFlex.
Additional support was received from
sponsors of the Berkeley Wireless
Research Center; the National Science
Foundation
Graduate
Research

Fellowship, under grant number
1106400; the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral
Fellowship program, and the Marie
Sklodowska-Curie Actions for People
COFUND program.
This article was written by Kara Manke,
UC Berkeley. For more information, visit
https://news.berkeley.edu.

Stretchable Micro-Supercapacitors to Self-Power
Wearable Devices
The system harvests
energy from human
breathing and motion.
Penn State University
University Park, PA
A stretchable system that can harvest
energy from human breathing and motion for use in wearable health-monitoring
devices may be possible, according to an
international team of researchers, led by
Huanyu " Larry " Cheng, the Dorothy
Quiggle Career Development Professor in

Penn State's department of engineering
science and mechanics. The research
team, with members from Penn State and
Minjiang University and Nanjing University, both in China, recently published
its results in Nano Energy.
According to Cheng, current versions
of batteries and supercapacitors powering wearable and stretchable healthmonitoring and diagnostic devices have
many shortcomings, including low energy density and limited stretchability.
" This is something quite different than
what we have worked on before, but it is

Precision matters.

a vital part of the equation, " Cheng says,
noting that his research group and collaborators tend to focus on developing
the sensors in wearable devices. " While
working on gas sensors and other wearable devices, we always need to combine
these devices with a battery for powering.
Using micro-supercapacitors gives us the
ability to self-power the sensor without
the need for a battery. "
An alternative to batteries, microsupercapacitors are energy storage devices that can complement or replace
lithium-ion batteries in wearable de-

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