{"id":5073,"date":"2016-09-07T17:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2016-09-07T17:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:31:36","slug":"renewable-outre-energy-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/07\/renewable-outre-energy-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Outr\u00e9 Energy Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is amazing, if not of necessarily huge impact. From<\/a>\u00a0Phys.org<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

Large quantities of fish are consumed in India on a daily basis, which generates a huge amount of fish “biowaste” materials. In an attempt to do something positive with this biowaste, a team of researchers at Jadavpur University in Koltata, India explored recycling the fish byproducts into an energy harvester for self-powered electronics.<\/p>\n

The basic premise behind the researchers’ work is simple: Fish scales contain collagen fibers that possess a piezoelectric property, which means that an electric charge is generated in response to applying a mechanical stress. As the team reports this week in Applied Physics Letters<\/i>, they were able to harness this property to fabricate a bio-piezoelectric nanogenerator.<\/p>\n

To do this, the researchers first “collected biowaste in the form of hard, raw fish scales<\/a> from a fish processing market, and then used a demineralization process to make them transparent and flexible,” explained Dipankar Mandal, assistant professor, Organic Nano-Piezoelectric Device Laboratory, Department of Physics, at Jadavpur University.<\/p>\n

The collagens within the processed fish scales serve as an active piezoelectric element.<\/p>\n

“We were able to make a bio-piezoelectric nanogenerator\u2014a.k.a. energy harvester\u2014with electrodes on both sides, and then laminated it,” Mandal said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if there are any applications of this collagen directly as medical materials, such as building the framework for heart muscle. Given the electrical requirements for heart muscles to work…..<\/p>\n

(h\/t Megan Treacy <\/a>@ Treehuggers.com<\/b><\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is amazing, if not of necessarily huge impact. From\u00a0Phys.org: Large quantities of fish are consumed in India on a daily basis, which generates a huge amount of fish “biowaste” materials. In an attempt to do something positive with this biowaste, a team of researchers at Jadavpur University in Koltata, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}