{"id":204179,"date":"2025-01-21T05:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/3d-printed-battery-made-from-fungi-feeds-on-sugars"},"modified":"2025-01-21T05:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:23:39","slug":"3d-printed-battery-made-from-fungi-feeds-on-sugars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/3d-printed-battery-made-from-fungi-feeds-on-sugars","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed battery made from fungi feeds on sugars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SbtMaItruXc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Swiss researchers claim to have devised a functional living battery powered by the combined efforts of two types of fungi \u2013 all in a biodegradable, non-toxic 3D-printed package. I\u2019ll give you a second to wrap your head around that outrageous statement before diving into the details.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s from a team at <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.empa.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)<\/a>, a D\u00fcbendorf-based research institute whose innovations have found their way into <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.empa.ch\/web\/s604\/moonswatch\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Omega watches<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.empa.ch\/web\/s604\/swijin-swim-run-bra\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">quick-drying sports bras<\/a>, and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/banking-fintech\/arsenal-football-club-buys-swiss-fake-grass\/41257112\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">top British soccer team Arsenal\u2019s artificial turf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/electronics\/spore-producing-bacteria-battery\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">we\u2019ve seen work on<\/a> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/biohybrid-battery-electric-bacteria\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">bacteria-powered batteries<\/a> before, the researchers note this is the first time two types of fungi have been brought together to create a working fuel cell. And to be clear, this is indeed more of a fuel cell than a battery, as it\u2019s utilizing the fungal metabolism to convert nutrients from microbes into energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss researchers claim to have devised a functional living battery powered by the combined efforts of two types of fungi \u2013 all in a biodegradable, non-toxic 3D-printed package. I\u2019ll give you a second to wrap your head around that outrageous statement before diving into the details. That\u2019s from a team at Swiss Federal Laboratories for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}