{"id":570561,"date":"2019-01-22T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=75dacbcc8817b0e7fcd284f5869c7708"},"modified":"2019-01-22T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:12:32","slug":"materials-chemists-tap-body-heat-to-power-smart-garments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=570561","title":{"rendered":"Materials chemists tap body heat to power &#8216;smart garments&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many wearable biosensors, data transmitters and similar tech advances for personalized health monitoring have now been &#8220;creatively miniaturized,&#8221; says materials chemist Trisha Andrew at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but they require a lot of energy, and power sources can be bulky and heavy. Now she and her Ph.D. student Linden Allison report that they have developed a fabric that can harvest body heat to power small wearable microelectronics such as activity trackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many wearable biosensors, data transmitters and similar tech advances for personalized health monitoring have now been &#8220;creatively miniaturized,&#8221; says materials chemist Trisha Andrew at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but they require a lot of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570562,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570561\/revisions\/570562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}