NASA makes longer, straighter piezoelectric nanowires in microgravity, no flat iron needed

Piezoelectric nanowires are the stuff that make power-generating pants achieveable, and that prodigious potential has drawn the notice of NASA. You notice, self-powered spacesuits are awfully attractive to our nation’s space agency, and some of its finest student researchers have discovered that the current-creating strands of zinc oxide should be would becould very well be made longer and straighter — and therefore more powerful — when free of gravity’s unrelenting pull. Which means nanowires grown in microgravity could lead on to better capacity batteries and the aforementioned juice-generating interstellar garb. For sure, there’s no such end-products yet, but let’s see if NASA can do what others haven’t: give pants-power to the folks.

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