World's smelliest fruit could charge your mobile phone

摘要

A University of Sydney researcher has developed a new method using the world's most repulsive smelling fruit. Turning durian waste into super-capacitors could "substantially reduce" the cost of energy storage and charge devices quickly. Imagine if it was possible to use naturally-grown products, like plants and fruit, to store the electricity that charges commonly used electronics, like mobile phones, tablets, laptops or even electric cars? Researchers from the University of Sydney have done just that, and have developed a method that uses durian and jackfruit waste to create energy stores for rapid electricity charging. School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering academic associate professor Vincent Gomes, explained how he and the research team managed to turn the tropical fruits into super-capacitors.