When we all eat fish, we throw the scales away. We can't eat them and this is what we have always done. However, what is being done with fish scales may just change everything!
Fish Scales Should Be Saved Because:
A new paper out in Applied Physics Letters today details a method for transforming fish scales into an energy harvester. Researchers processed the raw scales to make them flexible and then attached two electrodes to each scale before laminating it. The resulting cell could then harvest energy from movement around it, including motion as simple as just vibrations or even a heartbeat. This has researchers suggesting that they could one day use it to power things like pacemakers.
“In the future, our goal is to implant a bio-piezoelectric nanogenerator into a heart for pacemaker devices, where it will continuously generate power from heartbeats for the device’s operation,” co-author of the paper Dipankar Mandal of Jadavpur University explained in a statement.
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This incredible news that fish scales can be turned into energy, just might make you save the scales next time you eat fish. Do you eat a lot of fish?
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Article Source: Gizmodo
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