Scientists have designed a tiny fuel cell that generates electricity from the human body’s blood flow, and for the first time, they have tested the device in a person.
The blood-powered fuel cell connected to a low voltage display
Phones, tablets and other portable electronics are common, but development of equally portable power sources is lagging behind. This is a particular concern for biomedical devices such as pacemakers. Since the 1960s, researchers have made biocompatible fuel cells that generate power inside the body. However, none of these power sources has been successfully demonstrated in a human subject.
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Ex vivo electric power generation in human blood using an enzymatic fuel cell in a vein replica
Dmitry Pankratov, Lars Ohlsson, Petri Gudmundsson, Sanela Halak, Lennart Ljunggren, Zoltan Blum and Sergey Shleev
RSC Adv., 2016,6, 70215-70220
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA17122B, Communication
