Researchers at the University of care working on a pacemaker that can harness the power of the beating heart. If successful, the promising pacemaker will be battery-less and can possibly last a lifetime. As you know, pacemakers are devices that regulate the human heartbeat through electrodes and currents. These require batteries, which explains why pacemaker users require open heart surgery every seven years. .
Piezoelectric materials generate a small amount of electricity when they vibrate. The challenge is to use a smaller piezoelectric material to collect pulses of electricity each time the heart beats.
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