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January 24, 2014

Energy-dense sugar battery developed to power the world's gadgets
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jan 24, 2014
A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable. The findings from Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering, were published yesterday in the journal Nature Communications. While other sugar batteries have ... read more

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