New wireless, rechargeable battery research aims to reduce surgical risks
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By Jennifer Matthews
Researchers at Penn State are designing a new wireless rechargeable battery for biomedical electronics, such as cardiac pacemakers, that will allow them to be charged and managed without the need for invasive surgery.
“We want to optimize the battery and the materials design and couple that with wireless charging,” said Feifei Shi, assistant professor of energy engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State....