Fish 'Biowaste' Converted to Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

Fish 'Biowaste' Converted to Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

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Waste fish scales (upper left corner) are used to fabricate flexible nanogenerator (lower left) that power up more than 50 blue LEDs (lower right). An enlarged microscopic view of a fish scale shows the well-aligned collagen fibrils (upper right). The possibility of making a fish scale transparent (middle) and rollable (extreme left lower corner) is also illustrated.

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Sujoy Kuman Ghosh and Dipankar Mandal/Jadavpur University

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