Natural rubber for sustainable high-power electrical energy generation

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 53, 2014, Pages 27905-27913

  Kaltseis, Rainer ^a,b   Keplinger, Christoph ^a,b,c   Adrian Koh, Soo Jin ^d,e   Baumgartner, Richard ^a   Goh, Yu Feng ^e   Ng, Wee Hoe ^e   Kogler, Alexander ^a   Tröls, Andreas ^a   Foo, Choon Chiang ^b,d   Suo, Zhigang ^b   Bauer, Siegfried ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; RUBBER; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WATER WAVES;

DIELECTRIC STRENGTHS; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; HIGH POWER DENSITY; LEVELIZED COST OF ELECTRICITIES; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MECHANICAL MOTIONS; PORTABLE ELECTRONICS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 84903850442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra03090g     Document Type: Article

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