{"582799":{"#nid":"582799","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT produces electricity-generating textile","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPicture this: you\u0026rsquo;re walking down the street and your movements are charging your cell phone. Scientists at Georgia Tech say it\u0026rsquo;s real, and the secret is in your clothing. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;If we can make it thin enough, dense enough to make on a fabric, you make a power shirt,\u0026quot; said Dr. Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents\u0026#39; professor at Tech\u0026#39;s School of Materials Science and Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe power shirt \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;or jacket or vest \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;is the likely result of the ongoing research of Dr. Wang who, in a basement laboratory at Tech, has created an electricity-generating textile. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;(It\u0026#39;s) a power fabric,\u0026quot; Wang said. \u0026quot;A fabric that can convert any kind of physical motion, sunlight, solar light, light, into electricity for wearable electronics.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.11alive.com\/news\/local\/georgia-tech-produce-electricity-generating-textile\/337070350\u0022\u003EWatch the full report on Atlanta Alive\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT produces electricity-generating textile"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2016-10-19 16:33:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-19 16:33:12","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582798":{"id":"582798","type":"image","title":"Power-generating textiles","body":null,"created":"1476894674","gmt_created":"2016-10-19 16:31:14","changed":"1476894674","gmt_changed":"2016-10-19 16:31:14","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222150","name":"Power generating textiles.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Power%20generating%20textiles.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Power%20generating%20textiles.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24992,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Power%20generating%20textiles.jpg?itok=6jSXQw11"}}},"media_ids":["582798"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"},{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. Smith\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}