It is enough that the polymer electrolyte appearing in the model of Pollack battery is hydrophilic

The inspiration for this post comes from the claim of Donut Lab of having constructed a battery with almost miraculous properties. There is very little publlished information about the chemistry and structure of Donut battery. Using Claude Cowork Deep Research, Marko Manninen has carried out an analysis (see this) about what the Donut battery could be.

I have developed a TGD inspired model for what I call Pollack battery (see the blog post, the article ). The Pollack battery is inspired by the TGD based view of quantum biology and might have something to do with the Donut battery.

Pollack effect would explain the rapid charging reported also for Donut battery. The assumption that the solid state electrolyte, acting as catalyst for Pollack effect should be in gel phase, is problematic. This assumption turned out to be too strong as I learned from Esa-Juhani Ruoho whose sent an excellent article by Thomas Brown (see this) discussing the relationship between Pollack effect and icosahedral geometry playing a key role in the TGD based model of genetic code. In the usual Pollack effect, it is actually enough to have a hydrophilic polymer instead of a gel, and there are many of these. Hydrophilic polymers are possible also in the solid state as Google says.

  1. Hydrophilicity favors certain amino acids on the surface of the protein that borders on water. Roughly one half of the amino acids are hydrophilic. When proteins fold, proteins arrange themselves in water in such a way that hydrophobic amino acids border the cavities inside and hydrophilic amino acids face the water.
  2. There are 11 key hydrophilic amino acids.
    • 6 polar uncharged: Serine (Ser, S), Threonine (Thr, T), Asparagine (Asn, N), Glutamine (Gln, Q), Tyrosine (Tyr, Y), and Cysteine (Cys, C).
    • 3 positively charged (basic) : Lysine (Lys, K), Arginine (Arg, R), Histidine (His, H).
    • 2 negatively charged (acidic): Aspartic acid (Asp, D), Glutamic acid (Glu, E).

  3. Their key properties are as follows.
    • They are highly soluble in water because their side chains can form hydrogen bonds.
    • Protein Structure: They are typically found on the surface of globular proteins, interacting with the aqueous environment.
    • Catalysis: Charged hydrophilic amino acids (like His, Asp, Glu, Lys) are crucial in the active sites of enzymes, facilitating chemical reactions.
    • They are "water-loving" in contrast to hydrophobic amino acids (like Val, Leu, Ile, Phe, Trp) which prefer to be inside the protein, away from water.
Does a nanotube with -OH inserts at the defects of the nanotube at which C=C bond is transformed to a C-C bond make it a water-like compound as far as Pollack effect is considered? If so, the Pollack effect would correspond to a transition -OH →O- + dark proton at the flux tube also in this case.

Could hydrogen bonds form between the hydrogens of the nanotube and some atoms of the solid state polymer? Hydrogen bonds form between a hydrogen atom covalently bonded to a highly electronegative atom (typically Nitrogen, Oxygen, or Fluorine) and another electronegative N, O, or F atom on a nearby molecule. This suggests that the solid state polymer should contain N, O or F. N and O look the most plausible. All earlier mentioned polymer candidates, i.e. polyethylene oxide polymer, LiCF3SO3 salt, and silane-treated Al2O3 (Al2O3-ST) ceramic filler) contain oxygen atoms.

See the chapter Are Pollack batteries possible? or the article with the same title.