Flexible doctor blade-coated abiotic cathodes for implantable glucose/oxygen biofuel cells.

ABSTRACT: Implantable devices powered by batteries have been used for sixty years. In recent devices, lithium-based batteries are the most widely used power source. However, lithium batteries have many disadvantages in terms of safety, reliability, and longevity and require regular monitoring and substitution. Implantable glucose biofuel cells (BFCs) are increasingly seen as a potential future technology for replacing lithium-based batteries because they do not require surgical replacement after 8-10 years and have a theoretically unlimited lifetime thanks to the continued recovery of glucose and oxygen present in the human body. This paper shows the fabrication of flexible implantable abiotic cathodes, based on a nitrogen/iron-doped graphene catalyst, for glucose/oxygen biofuel cell application. An

SUBMITTER: Ghodhbane M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9890629 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature