EPISODE · Jul 7, 2026
New Fuels: Biofuels - Biofuel cell generates electricity when implanted in False Death’s Head Cockroach
from Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
Scientists have developed and implanted into a living insect — the False Death's Head Cockroach — a miniature fuel cell that converts naturally occurring sugar in the insect and oxygen from the air into electricity. They term it an advance toward a source of electricity that could, in principle, be collected, stored and used to power sensors, cameras, microphones and a variety of other microdevices attached to the insects in a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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