{"id":54461,"date":"2018-07-09T06:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T04:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=54461"},"modified":"2018-07-06T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T06:56:27","slug":"scientists-create-biodegradable-paper-based-biobatteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/scientists-create-biodegradable-paper-based-biobatteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create Biodegradable, Paper-based Biobatteries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The batteries of the future may be made out of paper. Researchers at Binghamton University have created a biodegradable, paper-based battery that is more efficient than previously possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For years, there has been excitement in the scientific community about the possibility of paper-based batteries as an eco-friendly alternative. However, the proposed designs were never quite powerful enough, they were difficult to produce and it was questionable whether they were really biodegradable.<\/p>\n

This new design solves all of those problems.<\/p>\n

Associate Professor Seokheun \u201cSean\u201d Choi from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Professor Omowunmi Sadik from the Chemistry Department worked on the project together.<\/p>\n

Choi engineered the design of the paper-based battery, while Sadik was able to make the battery a self-sustaining biobattery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a dramatic increase in electronic waste and this may be an excellent way to start reducing that,\u201d said Choi. \u201cOur hybrid paper battery exhibited a much higher power-to-cost ratio than all previously reported paper-based microbial batteries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The biobattery uses a hybrid of paper and engineered polymers. The polymers \u2013 poly (amic) acid and poly (pyromellitic dianhydride-p-phenylenediamine) \u2013 were the key to giving the batteries biodegrading properties.<\/p>\n

The team tested the degradation of the battery in water and it clearly biodegraded without the requirements of special facilities, conditions or introduction of other microorganisms.<\/p>\n

The polymer-paper structures are lightweight, low-cost and flexible. Choi said that flexibility also provides another benefit.<\/p>\n

\u201cPower enhancement can be potentially achieved by simply folding or stacking the hybrid, flexible paper-polymer devices,\u201d explained Choi.<\/p>\n

The team said that producing the biobatteries is a fairly straightforward process and that the material allows for modifications depending on what configuration is needed.<\/p>\n

The research paper titled \u201cGreen Biobatteries: Hybrid Paper-Polymer Microbial Fuel Cells\u201d was published in Advanced Sustainable Systems on June 28, 2018.<\/p>\n

The work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and done through the Center for Research in Advanced Sensing Technologies and Environmental Sustainability (CREATES).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The batteries of the future may be made out of paper. Researchers at Binghamton University have created a biodegradable, paper-based battery that is more efficient than previously possible. For years, there has been excitement in the scientific community about the possibility of paper-based batteries as an eco-friendly alternative. However, the proposed designs were never quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[14685,10503,11592],"supplier":[12967],"class_list":["post-54461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biobattery","tag-biodegradable","tag-polymers","supplier-binghamton-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54461"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=54461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}