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Technology uses plant biomass waste for self-powered biomedical devices:

An innovation turning waste material into stretchable devices may soon provide a new option for creating self-powered biomedical inventions.

A team from Purdue University used lignin to create triboelectric[*] nanogenerators. TENGs help conserve mechanical energy and turn it into power. Lignin is a waste byproduct from the pulp and paper industries, and it is one of the most abundant biopolymers on Earth.

[...] Wu said the lignin-based triboelectric devices also could function as self-powered sensors to detect and monitor the mechanical activities from the human body in applications such as health monitoring, human-machine interface, teleoperated robotics, consumer electronics and virtual and augmented reality technologies.

Journal Reference:
Yukai Bao, Ruoxing Wang, Yunmei Lu, Wenzhuo Wu. Lignin biopolymer based triboelectric nanogenerators [open], APL Materials (DOI: 015794APM)

[*] Triboelectric effect.

One man's kitchen scraps are another man's cyber-machines.

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1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
2. "Technology uses plant biomass waste for self-powered biomedical devices" - https://phys.org/news/2020-05-technology-biomass-self-powered-biomedical-devices.html
3. "015794APM" - https://doi.org/015794APM
4. "Triboelectric effect" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect
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