Ultrathin fuel cell uses the body’s own sugar to generate electricity

Engineers at MIT and the Technical University of Munich have designed a new kind of glucose fuel cell that converts glucose directly into electricity. The device is smaller than other proposed glucose fuel cells, measuring just 400 nanometers thick, or about 1/100 the diameter of a human hair. The sugary power source generates about 43 microwatts per square centimeter of electricity, achieving the highest power density of any glucose fuel cell to date under ambient conditions.  

https://news.mit.edu/2022/glucose-fuel-cell-electricity-0512

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