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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
May. 15, 2014
Rahul Sarpeshkar, Arlington, MA (US);
Jeremy Bert Muldavin, Arlington, MA (US);
Todd Addison Thorsen, Carlisle, MA (US);
Jakub Kedzierski, Nashua, NH (US);
Benjamin Isaac Rapoport, New York, NY (US);
Michale Sean Fee, Lexington, MA (US);
Rahul Sarpeshkar, Arlington, MA (US);
Jeremy Bert Muldavin, Arlington, MA (US);
Todd Addison Thorsen, Carlisle, MA (US);
Jakub Kedzierski, Nashua, NH (US);
Benjamin Isaac Rapoport, New York, NY (US);
Michale Sean Fee, Lexington, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A glucose fuel cell for reception into a given constrained volume of implantation in a vertebrate in which the glucose fuel cell has access to fluid containing glucose. The fuel cell includes an anode adapted to oxidize the glucose, a cathode adapted to reduce an oxidant, and a membrane disposed between the anode and the cathode and separating the anode from the cathode. At least one of the anode or cathode define a flexible sheet that is geometrically deformed to be receivable into the given constrained volume of implantation and increase volumetric power density. Related methods of making a glucose fuel cell of this type and implantable assemblies including the glucose fuel cell are also disclosed.