Sarah Guerin, Dr Damien Thompson, and Tofail Syed; University of Limerick (IMAGE)

University of Limerick

Sarah Guerin, Dr Damien Thompson, and Tofail Syed; University of Limerick

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Mobile phone speakers and motion detectors in cars and video games may soon be powered by electricity generated from low cost and sustainable biomaterials, according to research carried out at University of Limerick (UL), Ireland. Scientists at UL's Bernal Institute have discovered that the biomolecule glycine, when tapped or squeezed, can generate enough electricity to power electrical devices in an economically viable and environmentally sustainable way. The research was published on December 4, 2017 in leading international journal Nature Materials. Pictured is Sarah Guerin, Science Foundation Ireland funded post-graduate researcher at the Bernal Institute, UL with (LtoR) Sarah's PhD supervisor Dr Damien Thompson, Department of Physics and the Bernal Institute, UL and article co-author and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Medical Devices (CURAM) investigator Professor Tofail Syed.

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