Sugar battery for portable electronics; ‘Designer’ dietary fiber

Sugar battery for portable electronics
A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and possesses an energy storage density (596 Ah kg⁻¹) one order of magnitude higher than lithium-ion batteries. The research findings, from Y.H. Percival Zhang, Associate Professor of Biological Systems Engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering, were published in a paper “A high-energy-density sugar biobattery based on a synt…