ARTICLE : Making Batteries with Portabella Mushrooms - University of California Riverside

ARTICLE : Making Batteries with Portabella Mushrooms - University of California Riverside

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Can portabella mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time?

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering think so.

They have created a new type of lithium-ion battery anode using portabella mushrooms, which are inexpensive, environmentally friendly and easy to produce. The current industry standard for rechargeable lithium-ion battery anodes is synthetic graphite, which comes with a high cost of manufacturing because it requires tedious purification and preparation processes that are also harmful to the environment.