“The #UMass Amherst team were surprised to find that the device, which comprised an array of microscopic tubes, or #nanowires, was producing an electrical signal regardless.

Each nanowire was less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair, wide enough that an airborne water molecule could enter, but so narrow it would bump around inside the tube. Each bump, the team realised, lent the material a small #charge, and as the frequency of bumps increased, one end of the tube became differently charged from the other. ‘So it’s really like a battery,’”

#HygroElectricity / #power / #signals / #nanowires / #MetaMaterials / #uap
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power>

“The #UMass Amherst team were surprised to find that the device, which comprised an array of microscopic tubes, or #nanowires, was producing an electrical signal regardless.

Each nanowire was less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair, wide enough that an airborne water molecule could enter, but so narrow it would bump around inside the tube. Each bump, the team realised, lent the material a small #charge, and as the frequency of bumps increased, one end of the tube became differently charged from the other. ‘So it’s really like a battery,’”

#HygroElectricity / #power / #signals / #nanowires / #MetaMaterials /#uap
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power>

“The #UMass Amherst team were surprised to find that the device, which comprised an array of microscopic tubes, or #nanowires, was producing an electrical signal regardless.

Each nanowire was less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair, wide enough that an airborne water molecule could enter, but so narrow it would bump around inside the tube. Each bump, the team realised, lent the material a small #charge, and as the frequency of bumps increased, one end of the tube became differently charged from the other. ‘So it’s really like a battery,’”

#HygroElectricity / #power / #signals / #nanowires / #MetaMaterials
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power>

Study signals new era of environment-friendly programmable #bioelectronics.

#protein #nanowires

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-era-environment-friendly-programmable-bioelectronics.html

Physics researchers at Lund University in Sweden recently succeeded in constructing small #solar #radiation-collecting #antennas – #nanowires – using three different materials that are a better match for the solar spectrum compared with today’s #silicon solar cells
#Physics #Nanotechnology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/01/phy01302302.html

Spray-On Keyboard is as Light as It Gets https://hackaday.com/2023/01/18/spray-on-keyboard-is-as-light-as-it-gets/ #PeripheralsHacks #bluetooth #nanowires #keyboard #wearable #gesture

Spray-On Keyboard is as Light as It Gets - We’ve all seen those ‘nothing’ keyboards, where the keys themselves are not much m... - https://hackaday.com/2023/01/18/spray-on-keyboard-is-as-light-as-it-gets/ #peripheralshacks #bluetooth #nanowires #keyboard #wearable #gesture

#Light accelerates conductivity in #bacteria-generated #nanowires in the #soil and #oceans.

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-bacteria-generated-nanowires-soil-oceans.html

I fell on my pipette box #patchclampers
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RT @GemmaReguera
Extracellular electron transfer via microbial #nanowires

https://twitter.com/GemmaReguera/status/1612545781520539657

Day 9 - #ArtAdventCalendar

Fill some circles with randomly placed short and thin lines. It reminds me of the nanowires I worked on in school...

#generativeart #circles #nanowires #randomart

bacterial #nanowires

https://twitter.com/jcamthrash/status/1597259952703254529?s=20&t=4UdeimcWkohYBqBUfz0dfQ
#microbiology