{"id":162075,"date":"2024-04-30T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=162075"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:26:45","slug":"cideteq-electricity-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/biotechnology\/cideteq-electricity-sweat\/","title":{"rendered":"CIDETEQ Microfluidics Lab Generates Electricity from Sweat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did you know that your sweat<\/strong> can generate electricity<\/strong>, besides providing information about your health? This research is being carried out at the National Laboratory for Microfluidics and Nanofluidics<\/a> at the Center for Research and Technological Development in Electrochemistry<\/a>, <\/strong>(known in Spanish as CIDETEQ<\/strong>), which has been running since 2016 in the city of Quer\u00e9taro, Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luis Gerardo Arriaga Hurtado<\/a>, leader of this national laboratory, explains that the goal of this research center is \u201cthe conversion of energy, storage, the use of hydrogen, liquid fuels (ethanol, glucose), CO2, and utilizing other non-conventional fluids<\/strong> such as sweat, blood, or urine, which have analytes that can be oxidized and may work as fuels<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweat, blood, and urine? Yes, you read that right. The laboratory, which is funded by the National Council of Humanities, Science, and Technology<\/a> (known in Spanish as CONAHCYT), has developed a patch<\/strong> a few centimeters wide that\u2019s placed on the upper back of someone who\u2019s doing exercise to generate electricity<\/strong> from sweat<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen someone\u2019s sweating, we put a patch on them that generates energy from that sweat; we can also obtain information on their glucose levels from that fluid,\u201d explains Arriaga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Laboratory for Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, which has been running since 2016, specializes in researching the behavior, manipulations, and control of fluids<\/strong> confined in structures on dimensions at the micro and nano scales<\/strong>. What\u2019s more, it\u2019s working on the development of devices such as the aforementioned patch and other types of biosensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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