Now a battery made out of wood!
Now a battery made out of wood!. In an era where it is cool to be environmentally aware, scientists at the University of Maryland have come up with a formula for batteries that can be counted as cool. These batteries have wood as a major element in their formation, besides fiber and sodium, making them sodium powered batteries. Sodium-ion batteries are, incidentally considered less powerful and efficient than their lithium-ion counterparts. That doesn’t however mean that these batteries can’t be useful. According to the team of these scientists, these wooden batteries might not end up within your smartphone or your laptop or in any other fancy gadget, but they are extremely useful for storing power on a large scale basis, given the fact that they are good for storing electrolytes as they can swell and contract many times over. The side effect of the process, which will lead to erosion in battery capacity is the fact that the wood wrinkles due to the stress involved, but this doesn’t st...