Mushrooms For Batteries?

Better Batteries Might Be Made of Mushrooms

Aakash Goel | April 11, 2016

So much of the technology we use every day relies on battery power. 
Whether you own an iPhone, drive a Tesla, or jog wearing Bluetooth headphones, better battery life is probably pretty high on your technological wish list.
Now it turns out that the way to build a better battery might be to use mushrooms.
New research has demonstrated that metal nanoparticles can be attached to mushrooms to create batteries that outperform graphite-based lithium ion-batteries, which are found in essentially every rechargeable electronic device today.

The Future Will Be Full of Mushroom Batteries. Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-future-will-be-full-of-mushroom-batteries-1734018720

<more at http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/11863/Better-Batteries-Might-Be-Made-of-Mushrooms.aspx; related articles and links: http://gizmodo.com/the-future-will-be-full-of-mushroom-batteries-1734018720 (The Future Will Be Full of Mushroom Batteries. October 1, 2015) and https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/31442 (Making Batteries with Portabella Mushrooms. Porous structure of portabella mushrooms is key to making efficient batteries that could power cell phones and electric vehicles. September 29, 2015)>