Symposium 9

Micropowered Devices: Energy Harvest, Storage and Conversion

Sponsoring by the New Topics Committee
Miniaturized microdevices are expected to find multiple applications in such diverse areas as biomedical engineering and environmental monitoring. Their limited size places severe restrictions not only on the amount of energy these units can store but also their lifetime. This symposium addresses electrochemical, photoelectrochemical and other strategies involved in energy harvesting from light and biofluids, energy storage and power management of autonomous microdevices.

Topics will include

• Biofuel cells
• Design, construction and performance assessment of microbatteries, electrochemical double layer capacitors and microfuel cells
• Integration of autonomous microsensors

This symposium will also be of interest to researchers working in the highly multidisciplinary areas of biophysics, biomedical engineering and sensor technology.

Symposium organizer
Daniel Scherson, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA, daniel.scherson@case.edu