{"id":226576,"date":"2025-12-05T20:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/moisture-driven-power-generator-delivers-stable-electricity-even-in-dry-air-conditions"},"modified":"2025-12-05T20:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:03:59","slug":"moisture-driven-power-generator-delivers-stable-electricity-even-in-dry-air-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/moisture-driven-power-generator-delivers-stable-electricity-even-in-dry-air-conditions","title":{"rendered":"Moisture-driven power generator delivers stable electricity even in dry air conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moisture-driven-power-generator-delivers-stable-electricity-even-in-dry-air-conditions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their findings have been published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials in an article titled \u201cLong-Lasting Moisture Energy Scavenging in Dry Ambient Air Empowered by a Salt Concentration-Gradient Cationic Hydrogel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How the new MEG technology works These moisture-activated generators (or MEGs) work by creating a flow of ions\u2014charged particles\u2014inside a special gel, generating power naturally. But current versions face challenges: they don\u2019t last long (less than 16 hours), have high internal resistance, and only work well in very humid conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Shin and his team have overcome those hurdles. They developed a salt-concentration-gradient cationic hydrogel for MEG, promising lower energy loss and higher output even in conditions of low relative humidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their findings have been published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials in an article titled \u201cLong-Lasting Moisture Energy Scavenging in Dry Ambient Air Empowered by a Salt Concentration-Gradient Cationic Hydrogel.\u201d How the new MEG technology works These moisture-activated generators (or MEGs) work by creating a flow of ions\u2014charged particles\u2014inside a special gel, generating power naturally. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226576","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}