TY - GEN
T1 - Wearable self sufficient MFC communication system powered by urine
AU - Taghavi, Majid
AU - Stinchcombe, Andrew
AU - Greenman, John
AU - Mattoli, Virgilio
AU - Beccai, Lucia
AU - Mazzolai, Barbara
AU - Melhuish, Chris
AU - Ieropoulos, Ioannis A.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - A new generation of self-sustainable and wearable Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) is introduced. Two different types of energy - chemical energy found in urine and mechanical energy harvested by manual pumping - were converted to electrical energy. The wearable system is fabricated using flexible MFCs with urine used as the feedstock for the bacteria, which was pumped by a manual foot pump. The pump was developed using check valves and soft tubing. The MFC system has been assembled within a pair of socks.
AB - A new generation of self-sustainable and wearable Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) is introduced. Two different types of energy - chemical energy found in urine and mechanical energy harvested by manual pumping - were converted to electrical energy. The wearable system is fabricated using flexible MFCs with urine used as the feedstock for the bacteria, which was pumped by a manual foot pump. The pump was developed using check valves and soft tubing. The MFC system has been assembled within a pair of socks.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84906724526&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_12
M3 - Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
AN - SCOPUS:84906724526
SN - 9783319104003
VL - 8717 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 131
EP - 138
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 15th Annual Conference on Advances in Autonomous Robotics Systems, TAROS 2014
Y2 - 1 September 2014 through 3 September 2014
ER -