New Technology Generates Electricity from Humidity in Air
TECHDIGEST– Researchers at UMass Amherst have developed a special material that can harvest electricity from humidity in the air, using tiny holes called nanopores.
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) were able to “harvest” electricity from the air using a special material that they developed.
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With the study, whose results are published in the journal Advanced Materials, the researchers have proven that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air, according to UMass.
The trick is that the material will need to have “nanopores” which have a diameter of less than 100 nanometres in diameter.
“The air contains an enormous amount of electricity.
Think of a cloud, which is nothing more than a mass of water droplets. Each of those droplets contains a charge, and when conditions are right, the cloud can produce a lightning bolt—but we don’t know how to reliably capture electricity from lightning,” said Jun Yao, corresponding author of the research article, in a press statement.
