Green Options » mushroom http://greenoptions.com/tag/mushroom Posts tagged 'mushroom' Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:02:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Mushroom Enzyme Could Make Clean Fuel Cells http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/09/mushroom-enzyme-could-make-clean-fuel-cells/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/09/mushroom-enzyme-could-make-clean-fuel-cells/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:02:04 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/09/mushroom-enzyme-could-make-clean-fuel-cells/ mushrooms

Even the most environmentally-conscious among us use batteries containing toxic heavy metals on a daily basis. But a discovery made by chemists at Oxford University could one day lead to cleaner batteries for everyone. The researchers recently discovered that an enzyme produced by fungi growing on rotten wood can be used as a cheap and efficient catalyst in fuel cells.

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