AVISA MYKO: MELANIN APPLICATIONS

Melanin

Properties and Applications

Melanin is a pigment with remarkable properties

18 NOVEMBER 2022

UV PROTECTION

  • Melanin blocks UV rays. Its strong UV-B protecting capability, antioxidant and anti-ageing properties prevent skin damage, making it a promising constituent for dermatology and cosmetic applications like sunscreens. 
  • Its safe pigmentation qualities allow it to be incorporated into natural hair dyes and vitiligo cream

RADIATION PROTECTION
  • Melanin blocks ionizing radiation, such as x-rays and gamma rays.
  • Melanin has enormous potentials for use as drug to protect against radiotoxicity, and as protective gear in medicine, nuclear installations and aerospace

SOLAR FUEL CELL
  • Melanin has the promise of being the future in electricity generation in many fields.
  • It has the property of splitting hydrogen and oxygen in water, in the presence of sunlight, making it a probable  option in the development of fuel cells.

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LOW COST BATTERIES
  • Sodium and Magnesium ion batteries are low cost alternative to Lithium ion batteries. Magnesium and Sodium Ion batteries  are not rechargeable. 
  • Recently researchers have developed a rechargeable  Magnesium and Sodium ion batteries using melanin as a cathode.
  • The high cost of melanin presently available has prevented its use in battery technology.
  • By virtue of its low cost of production, Avisa Myko’s melanin has potentials for use in battery technology in the form of a cathode.

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ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR
  • Melanin is one of the rare Organic Semi Conductor. It is both , a ion and a electron conducting biomaterial . 
  • Electric current in electronics is carried by the electrons where as in biological systems the electric current is carried by ions.
  • Melanin is able to ‘talk’ to both electronic and ionic control circuitry providing  a new way of interfacing conventional electronics to biological systems.
  • Melanin is one of the very few materials that meet these compatible bioelectronic requirements.

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