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Power surfing on waves

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Wavy strips of piezoelectric materials on stretchable substrates can both withstand larger applied mechanical strain without cracking and harvest energy more efficiently than their flat counterparts.

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Figure 1: The design of Qi and colleagues' energy-harvesting devices1.

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  1. Min Hyung Lee and Ali Javey are in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.,

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