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Real chocolate mobile phone battery!

March 28, 2007 at 8:45 pm by Chris | In Mobile News, Just for fun

First we had the LG Chocolate range of phones, which while a great phone wasn’t edible, but now scientists have gone further and are planning an actual chocolate mobile phone battery!

Researchers at St. Louis University in Missouri are developing a new battery technology that will operate on virtually any sugar source, including chocolate although it’s not yet known whether milk or dark chocolate will give better results.

The new battery technology has the potential to run up to four times longer than conventional batteries claim the scientists. Whether they’ve taken into account users eating any of the battery when they get peckish was not revealed.

On a serious note, the new battery is also biodegradable, and could potentially replace lithium ion batteries in many potable electronic devices other than just mobile phones.

“This study shows that renewable fuels can be directly employed in batteries at room temperature to lead to more energy-efficient battery technology than metal-based approaches,”

says study leader Shelley Minteer, Ph.D., an electrochemist at Saint Louis University who continued:

“It demonstrates that by bridging biology and chemistry, we can build a better battery that’s also cleaner for the environment.”

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