Glucose Powered Device with Cotton Electrodes
February 5, 2019 | Terry Sharrer
Personal glucometers work by electrically detecting the amount of glucose oxidase in a drop of blood. Building on this, bioengineers at Korea University and Georgia Tech have shown how to create biofuel cells that use glucose to power implantable medical devices. They accomplished this with gold nanoparticle-imbedded cotton fibers for a cathode, and glucose oxidase-embedded cotton fibers for the anode. MORE
Image Credit: Georgia Tech and Korea University and Nature.com