US-based researchers managed to find a process that turns used glass bottles into lithium-ion coin cell batteries. Image source: Shutterstock (#257573980)
A reasearch team from the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering has found a way to build lithium-ion coin cell batteries from waste glass bottles using an inexpensive chemical process. In tests, the batteries yielded far better results than traditional battieres and stored nearly four times the energy conventional graphite anodes can manage.
Just one glass bottle can be crushed and grinded to provide enough nanosilicon to build hundreds of those batteries.
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