Mushroom Power Baby!
Mushroom Power Baby!
It isn't happening just yet, but a new scientific paper shows that it is possible, and perhaps even advantageous, to make batteries out of organic biological materials that have the added benefit of being cheap, environmentally friendly, and easy to produce. Engineers at the University of California, Riverside, say they have developed a new kind of lithium-ion battery anode that uses Portobello mushrooms, which turn out to be so efficient that they could even replace the industry standard of synthetic graphite. The development could affect multiple industries as biological materials might enable us to bring down costs and expend less energy in manufacturing. Synthetic graphite demands specific preparation and purification processes that are not only more costly but less environmentally friendly. (Nature Scientific Reports)
It isn't happening just yet, but a new scientific paper shows that it is possible, and perhaps even advantageous, to make batteries out of organic biological materials that have the added benefit of being cheap, environmentally friendly, and easy to produce. Engineers at the University of California, Riverside, say they have developed a new kind of lithium-ion battery anode that uses Portobello mushrooms, which turn out to be so efficient that they could even replace the industry standard of synthetic graphite. The development could affect multiple industries as biological materials might enable us to bring down costs and expend less energy in manufacturing. Synthetic graphite demands specific preparation and purification processes that are not only more costly but less environmentally friendly. (Nature Scientific Reports)
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