Abstract
The improvement in quality of modern health-care is closely related to the need for medical autonomous systems that enable people to ‘carry’ their personal wireless Body-Area-Network (BAN). Bio-inspired fuel cells (BFC) are a promising approach of energy harvesting to achieve autonomy and miniaturization in implantable BAN. This paper deals with BFC design and modelling. A glucose-based enzymatic BFC system is designed and tested by an in-house developed electrochemical testing set-up. The demonstrator shows the power output can be up to 5μW/cm2. Subsequently, a systematic BFC model has been set-up primarily based on the (electro)chemical reaction kinetics and mass transport of species involved in the complex electricity generation process.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The 10th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (Power MEMS 2010), 30 November - 2 December 2010, Leuven, Belgium |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | The 10th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (Power MEMS 2010) - Leuven, Belgium Duration: 30 Nov 2010 → 3 Dec 2010 |
Conference
| Conference | The 10th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (Power MEMS 2010) |
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| Country/Territory | Belgium |
| City | Leuven |
| Period | 30/11/10 → 3/12/10 |
Keywords
- Body-Area-Network
- Bio-inspired fuel cells
- enzymes
- glucose
- modelling