FSU's Daniel Hallinan and Hoyong Chung have developed a battery compound powered by the organic polymer lignin, a compound found in the cell walls of plants that makes them rigid. Their work was published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
“The main battle in battery science is in new materials,” said Chung. “Depending on what kind of material we use, we can improve the capacity of the battery and the safety of the battery substantially.” Lignin is cheap and abundant, with most of the supply coming from paper waste.
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