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1. U Mich researchers closer to producing piezo-powered pacemaker.

Subjects
*CARDIAC pacemakers, *CERAMICS, *PROTOTYPES, *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
Abstract

The article reports on the efforts of University of Michigan (UM) researchers to create a prototype of a heart-powered pacemaker. In Great Britain, they gave a paper in 2008 that describes some successes about a pacemaker based on harvesting heart energy. Amin Karami and Daniel Inman of UM have engineered the ceramic layer to a zigzag shape that can harvest vibrations across frequencies. Their pacemaker concept is explained in their paper that appeared in "Applied Physics Letters."

Published
2012