{"id":28175,"date":"2016-07-21T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/this-tiny-foldable-battery-is-powered-by-dirty-water"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:31:52","slug":"this-tiny-foldable-battery-is-powered-by-dirty-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/this-tiny-foldable-battery-is-powered-by-dirty-water","title":{"rendered":"This tiny foldable battery is powered by dirty water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-tiny-foldable-battery-is-powered-by-dirty-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dirty water has a use.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New technology doesn\u2019t always look great, but researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/binghamton.edu\">Binghamton University<\/a> are aiming to prove that function and style don\u2019t have to be at odds with a <a href=\"https:\/\/discovere.binghamton.edu\/news\/battery-4-6745.html\">new bacteria-powered battery<\/a> that takes its design cues from origami.<\/p>\n<p>Seokheun \u201cSean\u201d Choi, an assistant professor of computer and electrical engineering at Binghamton, and two of his students recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0956566316304432\">published<\/a> in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0956566316304432\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Biosensors and Bioelectronics<\/em><\/a> a report on their invention of a microbial fuel cell that runs on nothing more than the bacteria found in just a few drops of dirty water.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/debug\/disposable-foldable-oragami-battery-powered-by-bacteria\/\">http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/debug\/disposable-foldable-oragami-ba...-bacteria\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty water has a use. New technology doesn\u2019t always look great, but researchers at Binghamton University are aiming to prove that function and style don\u2019t have to be at odds with a new bacteria-powered battery that takes its design cues from origami. Seokheun \u201cSean\u201d Choi, an assistant professor of computer and electrical engineering at Binghamton, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28175","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66823,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28175\/revisions\/66823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}