Hi everyone,

A number of people were asking at the last meeting where the Nanomedicine book is available online and in particular Dru was asking about the section that describes how medical nanobots could use glucose for energy using an chemoelectric process (chemical energy to electrical energy, rather than chemical energy to heat or other form of mechanical energy).

That's described here:

http://www.nanomedici...

Says, "The biofuel cell that has received the most attention for nanomedicine is the oxyglucose cell, which could rely upon an electrochemical process in which glucose is oxidized at the anode and molecular oxygen is reduced at the cathode according to the following equations:" followed by the anode and cathode equations and the sources cited are "Biological Energy Sources: A Review," by O.Z. Roy, "Lipid bilayer-based sensors and biomolecular electronics," by H.T. Tien, Z. Salamon, and A. Ottova, and "Animal experiments with biogalvanic and biofuel cells," by E. Weidlich, G. Richter, F.V. Sturm, and J.R. Rao.

The entire book can be read online at:

http://www.nanomedici...

Wayne