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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Funct Mater. 2021 Feb 4;31(44):2009289. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202009289

Table 4.

Amount of energy available from endogenous and exogenous energy sources.

Type Energy source Available energy References
Mechanical Heartbeat 0.93 W [104]
Blood flow 50–150 cm s−1 [230]
Breathing 0.41 W [104]
GI motility Table 8
Center of mass 20 W [104]
Shoulder 2.2 W [104]
Knee 36.4 W [104]
Ankle 66.8 W [104]
Heel strike 20 W [104]
Chemical Blood glucose 4.5 × 10−3–10 × 10−3 M [231]
CSF glucose 4 × 10−3–25 × 10−3 M [232-234]
GI pH pH 1–8 [235]
GI nutrients Table 10 .
Electromagnetic EM wave 10 mW cm−2 [236]
Ultrasound Average 10–1000 mW cm−2, max pulse 190 W cm−2 [237]
Bioelectric Endocochlear potential 70–100 mV [223]