Quelques détails...


Kostiuk and co-workers used a glass disk 2 centimetres in diameter that contained 450 000 circular microchannels, each between 10 and 16 microns across. They held a reservoir of water 30 centimetres above the array and allowed it to flow through the disc under hydrostatic pressure, generating a current of 1500 nanoamps in the process. The power output could be improved by increasing the pressure drop, adjusting the size of the microchannels, decreasing the thickness of the glass disk or using a liquid with a higher salt concentration.

http://www.mece.ualberta.ca/staff/kostiuk.htm

http://www.physicsweb.org/article/news/7/10/11


Si vous avez quelques idées relatives aux applications pratiques, n'hésitez pas à les faire connaître !

Le courant est faible mais pourrait être augmenté en mettant plus de micro-canaux en parallèle...