You’ll never 'be-leaf' what makes up this battery!

Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 21:12 in Physics & Chemistry

Scientists have a new recipe for batteries: Bake a leaf, and add sodium. They used a carbonized oak leaf, pumped full of sodium, as a demonstration battery’s negative terminal, or anode, according to a paper published yesterday in the journal ACS Applied Materials Interfaces.

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