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Tiny Particles Power Chemical Reactions
A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment.
MIT engineers have discovered a new way of generating electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interacting with liquid surrounding them.
The liquid, an organic solvent, draws electrons out of the particles, generating a current that could be used to drive chemical reactions or to power micro- or nanoscale robots, the researchers say.
“This mechanism is new, and this way of generating energy is completely new,” says Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. “This technology is intriguing because all you have to do is flow a solvent through a bed of these particles. This allows you to do electrochemistry, but with no wires.”
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Do you have a source? Trying to figure out what is meant by current with no indication of routing. Current generally connotes movement from one place to another with work usually done en route. And this is unclear where the current if flowing from and to and work can be done with it, with a substance [carbon structure] placed in another medium [solvent].