What is it about?
A novel cellulose-based bio-battery made of electrospun fibers activated by biological fluids has been developed. This work reports a new concept for a fully organic bio-battery that takes advantage of the high surface to volume ratio achieved by an electrospun matrix composed of sub-micrometric fibers that acts simultaneously as the separator and the support of the electrodes.
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Why is it important?
Polymer composites of polypyrrole (PPy) and polyaniline (PANI) with cellulose acetate (CA) electrospun matrix were produced by in situ chemical oxidation of pyrrole and aniline on the CA fibers. The structure (CA/PPy|CA|CA/PANI) generated a power density of 1.7 mW g−1 in the presence of simulated biological fluids, which is a new and significant contribution to the domain of medical batteries and fully organic devices for biomedical applications.
Perspectives
A fully polymeric bio-battery was developed and validated demonstrating promising performance results, thus making it a new, economic alternative for supplying low-power consumption medical devices.
Ana Baptista
CENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Campus de Caparica, Portugal
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This page is a summary of: Cellulose-based electrospun fibers functionalized with polypyrrole and polyaniline for fully organic batteries, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta06457h.
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