The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath.

ABSTRACT: As wearable technologies redefine the way people exchange information, receive entertainment, and monitor health, the development of sustainable power sources that capture energy from the user's everyday activities garners increasing interest. Electric fishes, such as the electric eel and the torpedo ray, provide inspiration for such a power source with their ability to generate massive discharges of electricity solely from the metabolic processes within their bodies. Inspired by their example, the device presented in this work harnesses electric power from ion gradients established by capturing the carbon dioxide (CO₂ ) from human breath. Upon localized exposure to CO₂ , this novel adaptation of reverse electrodialysis chemically generates ion gradients from a single

SUBMITTER: Kalkus TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8336495 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature