ENERGY STORING AND RECOVERING DEVICE WORKING LIKE SPRING MOTORS USING NANOTUBES AS SPRING

摘要

An energy storage device includes at least one nanotube(l). An energy storage mechanism (10, 11) converts energy(12, 13) external to the device into the appropriate levels of strain (via 2, 3, 9) on the at least one nanotube(l) to produce stored energy, and an energy recovery mechanism (10, 11) converts the energy released by relaxing the at least one nanotube(l) back to energy (12, 13) external to the device.