14 DAY TRIAL // Mushrooms, and phones. They don't seem to get along just right, especially at parties... But it seems, that in some way they will have to, since being highly porous they help future lithium-ion batteries recharge smartphones faster in the future.
According to a study made by University of California, at the Riverside college of engineering managed to create a lithium-ion battery that's based on portabella mushrooms that are perfect to harvested and used in lithium-ion batteries since they are inexpensive and easy to produce.
The University of California scientists want this way to get rid of the current battery-making procedures that aren't only expensive, but also highly toxic and damaging to the environment.
The reason Riverside engineers wanted to use mushrooms, because its biomass is highly porous, and like potatoes, they can concentrate a large amount of potassium salt, being essentially perfect for electrolyte-active material over time. If more pores are activated, its capacity will also increase allowing a bigger electrolyte activity over time. This means that mushrooms will allow for bigger, better and a much bigger variety of batteries to be created.
“With battery materials like this, future cell phones may see an increase in run time after many uses, rather than a decrease, due to apparent activation of blind pores within the carbon architectures as the cell charges and discharges over time,” said Brennan Campbell, a graduate student in the Materials Science and Engineering program at UC Riverside.
If this technology will be applied after all, I hope that it will get to all batteries, especially car batteries and this way the world would probably be just a bit healthier than it is now.