Scientists Create Electricity Out of “Thin Air”

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have made progress in harnessing electrical currents from the air using a material made from living organisms.

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have made progress in harnessing electrical currents from the air using a material made from living organisms.

Their research discovered the “Air-gen effect,” which involves growing bacteria-infused nanofilms capable of extracting small amounts of electricity from water vapor in the atmosphere.

This breakthrough has opened up new possibilities for green energy technology.

The researchers realized that the ability to generate electricity from the air is not limited to specific materials but is a generalizable concept.

They identified the crucial property for electricity generation as the “mean free path,” which is the distance between molecules, particularly water molecules in the air.

As long as the nanofilm has tiny perforations, the specific material appears inconsequential.

While the focus is currently on producing small amounts of electricity for wearable devices, the potential scalability of this phenomenon poses exciting prospects for the future.

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