{"id":123505,"date":"2021-06-07T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-new-material-made-from-carbon-nanotubes-can-generate-electricity"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:23:08","slug":"a-new-material-made-from-carbon-nanotubes-can-generate-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-new-material-made-from-carbon-nanotubes-can-generate-electricity","title":{"rendered":"A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-material-made-from-carbon-nanotubes-can-generate-electricity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT engineers have discovered a new way of generating electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interacting with liquid surrounding them.<\/p>\n<p>The liquid, an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organic+solvent\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic solvent<\/a>, draws electrons out of the particles, generating a current that could be used to drive <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> or to power micro-or nanoscale robots, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis mechanism is new, and this way of generating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> is completely new,\u201d says Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. \u201cThis technology is intriguing because all you have to do is flow a solvent through a bed of these particles. This allows you to do electrochemistry, but with no wires.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT engineers have discovered a new way of generating electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interacting with liquid surrounding them. The liquid, an organic solvent, draws electrons out of the particles, generating a current that could be used to drive chemical reactions or to power micro-or nanoscale robots, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}