Since two decades, the whole world is concentrating on the pollution and its irreversible impact on the environmental balance. One of the prime factors that spur the environmental degradation is the pollution, created due to produce electricity. Again nanotechnology with all its uniqueness in its ability to solve any kind of technical problem comes up with a method in which environmentally friendly battery could be made by the nanostructure of algae.
Gustav Nystrom( a doctoral student in nanotechnology) who is in the team of Uppasala University in Sweden opined that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of algae can serve as an effective coating substrate for use in environmentally friendly batteries.
According to the researchers, the algae have a special cellulose structure characterized by a very large surface area and they have coated this structure with a layer of conducting polymer. The battery almost weighs nothing and that has set new charge-time and capacity records for polymer-cellulose-based batteries.
Pharmaceutical applications of the cellulose from Cladophora algae have been explored for a number of years. This type of cellulose has a unique nanostructure, entirely different from that of terrestrial plants, that has been shown to function well as a thickening agent for pharmaceutical preparations and as a binder in foodstuffs. It is because of this huge surface area that the possibility of energy-storage applications has been raised.
This type of research creates new possibilities for large-scale production of environmentally friendly, cost-effective, lightweight energy storage systems.
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