At the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Sensor Technology (North Base), University of California, Berkeley, Professor Lin Liwei paid an exchange visit to the Institute of Electronics on July 22, 2010 and made a wonderful report named as Nanogenerator in Electric Clothing for Energy Harvesting inConference Room 1108 of Science and Electronics Building. The report highlighted a new type of nano-fibers developed by Professor Lin and his team. This kind of nano-fibers can generate ten times more effective energy than such material of the same size and it can be widely applied to a variety of areas, including the power accessibility, pressure induction and drive sources, etc. This kind of materials is expected to be made into intelligent power generation clothes within 3-4 years, as chargers of small electronic products. Professor Lin made a vivid lecture, and explained in details the issues interesting the teachers and students. Present at this report were Professor Helmut Seidel and his students from Saarland University of Germany, and such teachers from Electronics Institute as researcher Xia Shanhong, researcher Zhao Zhan and vice-researcher Wang Junbo, as well as several graduate students.

Professor Lin Liwei is now teaching at Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of California, Berkeley, acting as director of Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC), and engaged in the relevant research on micro and nano electromechanical systems. As one of the initiators of MEMS Division of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the initiating chairman of ASME MEMS community and one of the outstanding researchers in this area, Professor Lin has ever convoked a number of world-renowned academic conferences, acted as editors of several internationally renowned academic periodicals and published 87 academic papers, and also had 14 patents authorized.