medical batteries

There is the potential to never need batteries in medical devices ever again. A study has recently been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discussing how tiny "nanogenerators" have been implanted into different equipment that require batteries to run. These "nanogenerators," which are polymer-based, take the energy that is created by a person's beating heart and converts it...

One of the iconic scenes from science fiction may be coming to a pharmacist in your near future, thanks to the ink of a cuttlefish. Current technology allows implantable electronic devices - insulin pumps and pacemakers are good examples - that have to be surgically implanted. Their power supplies are also optimized for energy density and are made up of...