{"624513":{"#nid":"624513","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Energy Scavengers: Static Electricity Could Power the World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe plastic gizmo in \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/wang\/zhong%20lin\u0022\u003EZhong Lin Wang\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026rsquo;s hand doesn\u0026rsquo;t look like tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s solution to our looming energy crisis. It\u0026rsquo;s about the size and shape of a small grapefruit, but smooth and translucent. As he shakes it, a smaller ball inside bounces around freely....We\u0026#39;re in a windowless basement room on\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;Atlanta campus. A trio of fresh-faced researchers stand nearby in white lab coats, watching and smiling. One holds a keyboard, and another a piece of red and yellow fabric. \u0026ldquo;In our environment, everything is moving, everything is changing,\u0026rdquo; Wang says, still shaking. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s all energy, and so much is wasted.\u0026rdquo; He wants to do something about that. For the last decade and a half, Wang, an electrical engineer and nanotechnologist, has sought ways to scavenge energy from the movements of ordinary life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-08-14 17:12:53","changed_gmt":"2019-08-14 17:16:28","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Seminar Sp2022","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2019\/septemberoctober\/the-energy-scavengers","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"622999":{"id":"622999","type":"image","title":"Zhong Lin Wang","body":null,"created":"1562175293","gmt_created":"2019-07-03 17:34:53","changed":"1562175293","gmt_changed":"2019-07-03 17:34:53","alt":"This is a picture of Zhong Lin Wang","file":{"fid":"237251","name":"Zhong Lin Wang.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":106454,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang_0.png?itok=B2zXImCO"}}},"media_ids":["622999"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}