diesel fuel (trucking) and natural gas (incineration). To help address some of these core issues, Bretschger said in an interview that "the wastewater produced by manufacturing facilities is often ...

Biodegradable battery invented by scientists in Switzerland Fungi, which is the building block of mushrooms, is the core material used The fungi-powered battery generates enough electricity to power ...

In technical terms, this fungal battery isn’t a battery at all, but a device known as a microbial fuel cell (MFC). MFCs use the metabolism of living things — traditionally bacteria or algae — to ...

Strictly speaking, the cell is not a battery, but a so-called microbial fuel cell. Like all living things, microorganisms convert nutrients into energy. Microbial fuel cells make use of this ...

Here’s how the fungal battery, developed at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), is able to generate electricity. Strictly speaking, Empa researchers explain, ...

A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what Empa researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, ...

Microbial fuel cells generate an electric current by harvesting the electrons that are produced by the respiration of substrates. Reporting in Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Kato Marcus and ...

A new tool could make it easier to study scarce plant molecules. Researchers have developed so-called microbial cell factories -- using E. coli and yeast -- to produce a special class of plant ...