![]() ![]() “We are opening up a wide door for harvesting clean electricity from thin air.” “This is very exciting,” says Xiaomeng Liu, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering in UMass Amherst’s College of Engineering and the paper’s lead author. ![]() The research appeared in the journal Advanced Materials. ![]() The secret lies in being able to pepper the material with nanopores less than 100 nanometers in diameter. – A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently shown that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air. Researchers describe the “generic Air-gen effect”-nearly any material can be engineered with nanopores to harvest, cost effective, scalable, interruption-free electricityĪMHERST, Mass. Image: Nanopores are the secret to making electricity from thin air. ![]()
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