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The current Air-gen device can power small devices. Photos courtesy: UMass Amherst/Yao and Lovley labs.
The current Air-gen device can power small devices. Photos courtesy: UMass Amherst/Yao and Lovley labs.

Renewable device could help mitigate climate change, power medical devices. Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a device that uses a natural protein to create electricity from moisture in the air, a new technology they say could have significant implications for the future of renewable energy, climate change and in the future of medicine.

As reported today in Nature, the laboratories of electrical engineer Jun Yao and microbiologist Derek Lovley at UMass Amherst have created a device they call an “Air-gen.” or air-powered generator, with electrically conductive protein nanowires produced by the microbe Geobacter...

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