{"id":83286,"date":"2018-10-04T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/flowing-salt-water-over-this-super-hydrophobic-surface-can-generate-electricity"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:06:58","slug":"flowing-salt-water-over-this-super-hydrophobic-surface-can-generate-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/flowing-salt-water-over-this-super-hydrophobic-surface-can-generate-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Flowing salt water over this super-hydrophobic surface can generate electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flowing-salt-water-over-this-super-hydrophobic-surface-can-generate-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a super-hydrophobic surface that can be used to generate electrical voltage. When salt water flows over this specially patterned surface, it can produce at least 50 millivolts. The proof-of-concept work could lead to the development of new power sources for lab-on-a-chip platforms and other microfluidics devices. It could someday be extended to energy harvesting methods in water desalination plants, researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by Prab Bandaru, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, and first author Bei Fan, a graduate student in Bandaru\u2019s research group, published their work in the Oct. 3 issue of Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The main idea behind this work is to create electrical <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/voltage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">voltage<\/a> by moving ions over a charged <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface<\/a>. And the faster you can move these ions, the more voltage you can generate, explained Bandaru.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-10-salt-super-hydrophobic-surface-electricity.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;10-salt-super-hydrophobic-sur...icity.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a super-hydrophobic surface that can be used to generate electrical voltage. When salt water flows over this specially patterned surface, it can produce at least 50 millivolts. The proof-of-concept work could lead to the development of new power sources for lab-on-a-chip platforms and other microfluidics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83286","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83436,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83286\/revisions\/83436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}