학술논문

Patch-Type Wearable Enzymatic Lactate Biofuel Cell With Carbon Cloth Bioelectrodes for Energy Harvesting From Human Sweat
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics IEEE Flex. Electron. Flexible Electronics, IEEE Journal on. 1(1):32-38 Jan, 2022
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Electrodes
Biofuels
Biochemistry
Electric potential
Surface treatment
Substrates
Current density
Electrocatalysis
enzymatic biofuel cell
multiwalled carbon-nanotubes
perspiration
polarization
wearable bioelectronics
Language
ISSN
2768-167X
Abstract
Enzyme-powered biofuel cells (EBFCs) are one of the most possible power sources for wearable microelectronic devices because of their small size and specificity of enzymes. The optimum realization of these energy sources becomes possible by fabricating biocompatible, flexible, and environment-friendly electrode materials with high active sites. Nanomaterials, with enhanced surface area, fulfill the above necessities and are used in a variety of applications. In this work, a novel membraneless enzymatic biofuel cell utilizing carbon nanotubes coated carbon cloth (CC) as bioelectrodes is presented. The bioelectrodes were integrated onto an article substrate to develop an economical and disposable patch-type wearable EBFC (W-EBFC). Such W-EBFC is designed which can deliver a power density of 132 and $104 \mu \text{W}$ /cm 2 , with a stable voltage in 8-mM lactate concentration and real samples of human sweat, respectively. The results reflect that CC-based bioelectrodes-based biofuel cells have enormous potential to be a good energy source for wearable biomedical applications.