‘Wooden’ Battery Acts as Low-Cost, Safe Alternative to Store Power

Mashable 2014-07-29

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Liangbing Hu and Nicholas Weadock are two researchers developing the “wooden” battery at the University of Maryland. Their idea utilizes the tree’s fiber-like structure to excite charged particles and create an electrical current.
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