India, April 26 -- The development of engineered devices capable of harvesting the body's mechanical motion and converting it into electricity is crucial for the functioning of bioelectronics.

Mechanoelectrical energy conversion offers a promising solution for powering miniaturised biomedical devices, such as cardiac pacemakers, brain stimulators, wearable drug delivery systems, and more.

Although there have been various proposals for miniaturised mechanoelectrical converters in the past decade, the challenge of achieving both high electrical output and body-conformal device structures remains.

A research team led by Professor Lizhi Xu from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong...