Daintiest dynamos [nuclear microbatteries].
Research groups at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin have been working on a way to harvest the energy released naturally by tiny bits of radioactive material, specifically, the energy that comes from high-energy particles spontaneously emitted by radioactive elements. Their research...
| Published in: | IEEE spectrum 41, 9 (2004). |
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| Language: | English |
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