A team of scientists at the University of Maryland’s Center for Materials Innovation is working on an important discovery as they found that crustaceans such as crabs and lobsters contain a chemical called chitin in their shells that can be used as food. batteries combined with zinc.
Lithium-ion batteries, common in most of our cell phones and laptops, can take hundreds of thousands of years to decompose, but these shellfish batteries are biodegradable and can degrade in soil in as little as five months, leaving behind zinc. which can be recycled.
The University of Maryland study also found that chitin-zinc batteries were 99.7% efficient after more than 400 hours of use, according to The Guardian, and that these batteries could probably be produced cheaply on a large scale.
Speaking to The Guardian, Graeme Newton, professor of materials chemistry at the University of Nottingham who studies sustainable battery technology, expressed cautious optimism about the discovery.
“When new materials are developed for battery technology, there is typically a significant gap between promising lab results and demonstrable, scalable technology,” said Newton, who is not associated with the Maryland study.
Source: Digital Trends
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