A new, power-generating biomaterial.
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Electric Skin is a new biomaterial that can generate electricity from the humidity in the air, using the protein nanowires from bacteria Geobacter sulfurreducens.
It is being developed by a collective of 4 women: Nada El Kharashi, Catherine Euale, Sequoia Fisher and Paige Perillat-Piratoine. Our vision is of a radically sustainable energy future, where our power generation and our electronics are growable and compostable. Where our electronic devices have a new materiality, are complex, textured, and perhaps even alive. Where their end of life is back in the soil. Our goal is to continue our research and grow the electrical output of Electric Skin as well as uncover future applications.
We have slowly been experimenting with form and material explorations to apply our biomaterial Electric Skin to the design of a Wall Light – a meaningful object that will reflect all these questions and drive a new way of relating to technology.
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