The Virus Is Made Into Power Shoes.

Experiments show that the electric power produced by this generator is equivalent to 1/4 of the electric energy produced by a 7 battery.

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Very thin, scientists believe that their future use will be very extensive.

According to the introduction, this kind of thin and ordinary electrical apparatus covered with ordinary paper is covered with specially treated harmless virus.

After that, the virus can pform the kinetic energy generated by people's walking into electrical energy.

In order to test the performance of this kind of generator, scientists at Laurence Berkeley national laboratory used fingers to beat electrodes to simulate the kinetic energy generated by pressing the generator when walking.

The result shows that the power generated by this generator may be used for a small LCD screen, equivalent to 1/4 of the electricity generated by a 7 battery.

Although the power generation capacity is limited, the key to this research and development result is that it is the first "living body" generator in the world, and the first generator to use the piezoelectric properties of biomaterials.

Piezoelectric phenomenon is the phenomenon of potential difference between two ends of dielectric under pressure.

The piezoelectric material will produce expansion and contraction when applied to the electric field. Instead, when the pressure is applied, the voltage will be generated.

Scientists believe that this technology can be used to provide electricity to all kinds of devices in the future, and will also lead to the trend of power generation through various kinds of vibrational energy in daily life, such as switching gates, up and down stairs, etc.

"We need more research, but we have made a bright first step in the development of human dynamo and other viral power generation equipment," said Li Chengxu, an associate professor of bioengineering at University of California at Berkeley in Laurence Berkeley.

At present, the laboratory is testing a virus called "M13".

Researchers say the virus attacks bacteria only and is harmless to humans.

At the same time, it also has the characteristics of viruses, and can carry out millions of self replicas in a few hours, so there will be no shortage of power generation and supply.

Genetically speaking, a large number of baculovirus naturally arrange themselves in order to form neat and orderly films, just as chopsticks are neatly placed in boxes.

In order to further enhance the power generation performance, scientists stacked the virus thin film and found that after stacking about 20 layers of virus, the piezoelectric phenomenon produced by this kind of micro generator is the strongest.