Nanogenerator to empower pacemaker

• by indranil
• 2014-08-12 10:08:39
• Batteries & Leads
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Encouraging news for the heart patients. In near future generator can supply power to ensure smooth functioning of cardiac pacemaker. Chinese scientists have recently developed a nanogenerator which can power a cardiac pacemaker with electricity generated by a patient's breathing. At present the accuracy of a cardiac pacemaker depends absolutely on batteries.

The nanogenerator system was developed by the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems. It includes an implantable nanogenerator as well as an energy conversion and storage device, according to an announcement by Chinese Academy of Sciences.

How is the nanogenerator? It is 12 millimeters long, 12 millimeters wide and 0.7 millimeter thick.

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What is the significance of the new system? According to the scientists, the self-powered system can produce energy from breathing movements and stores the energy in the form of electricity to drive the pacemaker.

Perhaps everyone knows that pacemakers have long been limited by their lack of a long-term supply of electricity, as current implanted devices are mainly powered by batteries.Once the batteries run out, patients face more surgery and heavy costs.

The researchers of the institute believe, the invention will break the bottleneck and greatly extend the service life of medical devices in the field.

Naturally, the entire world is looking forward to welcome the new system.