Scientists have developed a way to generate electricity from scratch

In what can truly be called a miracle of science, the new device has been developed that uses a natural protein in the air to generate electricity.

Air-Gen “, generated by the device researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in principle, without a motor-generator that includes an electrically conductive nanowires produced by the microbial protein Geobacter. The combined such nanowires electrodes protein that electric current is generated in the humidity of the atmosphere.

The discovery may be very appropriate in the fight against world is looking for renewable energy sources to climate change.

The unit has been created in laboratories microbiologist Derek Lovley and electrical engineering at the University of Yao June. Yao said that they are literally make electricity out of thin air. The air-Gen can also generate electricity in regions with very low humidity, such as deserts, they claimed. It has the ability to produce clean energy around the clock.

Lovley said that it is the most amazing program protein nanowires. He said Air-Gen has the upper hand in other renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, because it does not require either sunlight or wind and can also work indoors.

According to the Varsity website, the device requires only a thin nanowires protein which is less than 10 microns thick. The combination of electrical conductivity, and surface chemistry of the nano wires of the protein together with the fine pores between the nanowires in the film, creating a condition that can produce an electric current between the electrodes.

The ultimate goal, Lovley said, is to make large-scale systems, which make a significant contribution to sustainable energy production.

What next? Scientists plan to work in an air-Gen patch that will power smartwatches and fitness bands and stop the dependence on batteries. There is a larger idea to Air-Gen mobile phones too.