FSU researchers develop battery component with plant compounds
A Florida State University research team has developed a way to use a material found in plants to help create safer batteries.
Using the organic polymer lignin a compound in the cell walls of plants that makes them rigid the team was able to create battery electrolytes. Their research was published as the cover article in the journal Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
Hoyong Chung, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is the study’s corresponding author.
Other members of the research team are: Daniel Hallinan Jr., FAMU-FSU College of Engineering associate professor and co-corresponding author; former graduate student Hailing Liu; and former graduate assistant Logan Mulderrig.
New Way to Use Lignin from Plants in Battery Electrolytes
Written by AZoMFeb 23 2021
A group of researchers from Florida State University (FSU) has devised a new method to make use of a material contained in plants to develop safer batteries.
From left, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering associate professor Daniel Hallinan Jr. and FAMU-FSU College of Engineering assistant professor Hoyong Chung. Their research developed a way to use lignin, a compound in the cell walls of plants that makes them rigid, in the electrolytes of batteries. Image Credit: Florida State University Photography Services.
The researchers used an organic polymer called lignin a compound present in the cell walls of plants that makes them stiff and could create battery electrolytes. The study was published as the cover article in the