Engineers Create Flexible Battery That Runs On Organ Movement, University of Illinois Study

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A tiny, patch-like battery that uses the natural movement of organs such as the heart or lungs to generate electricity inside the human body has been developed by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A paper describing the device was recently published online in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

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