"Sugar batteries" will be 10 times times more durable than lithium batteries.

[Guide] This new "sugar battery", the energy density is twice times the lithium battery, alkaline battery 4 times times, I believe that the future will be improved to more than 10 times times more durable than lithium batteries, plus "sugar" raw materials easy to obtain and cheap. Tencent Digital Message (compiled: Zhang Xiumei) A new "sugar battery" has been developed by a team of researchers from the Virginia Tech University in the United States. The new battery, which uses sugar as an energy source, is more energy-dense than it used to be, and can be reused, without fear of exploding or burning, and then biodegradable. Continued development is expected to replace the traditional battery to become a low-cost and rechargeable environmentally friendly battery. The invention of the sugar battery is Percival, an associate professor of biological systems engineering at the School of Agricultural and Life sciences and engineering school. He said that although there are other sugar batteries, but their sugar battery energy density than the previous one order of magnitude, before charging to run longer. This new "sugar battery", the energy density is twice times the lithium battery, alkaline battery 4 times times, I believe that the future will be improved to more than 10 times times more durable than lithium batteries, plus "sugar" raw materials easy to obtain and cheap. The sugar battery is expected to power mobile phones, tablets, video games and a large number of other electronic devices in three years. "Sugar is an excellent, energy-storing mixture of nature. "So it's only logical that we try to use this natural energy to produce batteries in an environmentally friendly way," Percival said. "The sugar battery uses a range of enzymes that are grouped together in a way that nature does not." Researchers have constructed an unnatural pathway of synthetic enzymes that can extract all the potential energy from the sugar and generate electricity in a small, enzyme-fueled cell. Traditional batteries are usually made of expensive platinum catalysts, and they use low cost biocatalysis enzymes. "Through an enzymatic streamer, we can release all the electrical charge in a sugar solution slowly and step by step," he said. "Percival said. Like all other fuel cells, the sugar battery is a combined fuel. The researchers used malt dextrin and air to generate electricity and water, a kind of poly-sugar, which is formed by partial hydrolysis of starch, which is the main by-product. The researchers used malt dextrin and air to generate electricity and water, a kind of poly-sugar, which is formed by partial hydrolysis of starch, which is the main by-product. Unlike a hydrogen fuel cell, a direct methanol fuel cell, the sugar solution fuel does not explode or burn, and the enzymes and fuels that make the battery are biodegradable. In addition, the sugar battery can be recharged again, in which sugar is added like ink to the printer's cartridge.