Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Microbial biofilms for electricity generation from water evaporation and power to wearables

  • Xiaomeng Liu,
  • Toshiyuki Ueki,
  • Hongyan Gao,
  • Trevor L. Woodard,
  • Kelly P. Nevin,
  • Tianda Fu,
  • Shuai Fu,
  • Lu Sun,
  • Derek R. Lovley,
  • Jun Yao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32105-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Though water evaporation-driven electricity generation is an attractive sustainable energy production strategy, existing electronic devices suffer from poor performance or is costly. Here, the authors report sustainable biofilms for efficient, low-cost evaporation-based electricity production