{"id":143437,"date":"2022-08-02T18:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-engineer-biofilm-capable-of-producing-long-term-continuous-electricity-from-your-sweat"},"modified":"2022-08-02T18:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:25:28","slug":"researchers-engineer-biofilm-capable-of-producing-long-term-continuous-electricity-from-your-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-engineer-biofilm-capable-of-producing-long-term-continuous-electricity-from-your-sweat","title":{"rendered":"Researchers engineer biofilm capable of producing long-term, continuous electricity from your sweat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-engineer-biofilm-capable-of-producing-long-term-continuous-electricity-from-your-sweat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have reported the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting Ross 508 near the inner edge of its habitable zone.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have figured out how to engineer a biofilm that harvests the energy in evaporation and converts it to electricity. This biofilm, which was announced in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, has the potential to revolutionize the world of wearable electronics, powering everything from personal medical sensors to personal electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very exciting technology,\u201d says Xiaomeng Liu, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering in UMass Amherst\u2019s College of Engineering and the paper\u2019s lead author. \u201cIt is real green energy, and unlike other so-called \u2018green-energy\u2019 sources, its production is totally green.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because this <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/biofilm\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biofilm <\/a>\u2014a thin sheet of bacterial cells about the thickness of a sheet of paper\u2014is produced naturally by an engineered version of the bacteria Geobacter sulfurreducens. G. sulfurreducens is known to produce electricity and has been used previously in \u201cmicrobial batteries\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical devices<\/a>. But such batteries require that G. sulfurreducens is properly cared for and fed a constant diet. By contrast, this new biofilm, which can supply as much, if not more, energy than a comparably sized battery, works, and works continuously, because it is dead. And because it\u2019s dead, it doesn\u2019t need to be fed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have reported the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting Ross 508 near the inner edge of its habitable zone. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have figured out how to engineer a biofilm that harvests the energy in evaporation and converts it to electricity. This biofilm, which was announced in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,38,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143437","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}