Portabella Mushroom Battery

What do you use everyday?  Your cell phone?  Your car?  What about batteries? I know I use batteries nonstop.  When I came across an article that said research is studying how to make batteries out of Portabella Mushrooms, I had to research more.
Lithium-ion batteries are made of synthetic graphite, which costs lots to make and harms the environment greatly.  Instead of using graphite, using biomass (biological material from a living or recently living organism) would be cheaper and eco friendly!
Mushrooms have lots of small spaces that liquid and air can pass through, (They're highly porous). This creates more space for energy to go through, improving the battery’s performance.
Also, a mushroom’s high potassium salt concentration helps increase the flow of electrolyte-active material. As more pores are activated, the batteries performance increases.

"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.

I’m really excited for this new type of battery to come out!

For more information, go to: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150929142522.htm