Biological mushroom breakthroughs can light up your home

Finding clean methods to produce electricity is a priority for scientists who are eager to reduce human dependence on fossil fuels.

Recently, a group of American researchers claimed to have found a way to produce environmentally friendly energy by using fungi and bacteria.

The mushroom is attached to cyanobacteria and electrical circuits.(Photo: CNN).

CNN reported that scientists at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey state have attached a cluster of cyanobacteria capable of releasing energy onto a normal button mushroom using 3D printing technology, along with electrical circuits .

Marine cyanobacteria on the surface and ocean, in particular, can turn light into energy through photosynthesis. With the bacteria unable to live long on artificial surfaces, two researchers named Manu Mannoor and Sudeep Joshi used mushrooms to optimize the habitat for Cyanobacteria including nutrition, temperature and temperature. warm. As a result, Cyanobacteria live longer than when on other surfaces.

They say their research shows the possibility of "design symbiosis" between non-living organisms and materials, described as two different worlds.

"What we present in the newspaper is an approach that uses multi-material 3D printing technology to integrate and seamlessly incorporate the" smart "attributes of these two worlds - one that is bio-living microorganisms. and one is a lifeless nanomaterial, "Mannoor wrote.

Their research - just published in the November 11 issue of 'Nano Letters' - could be used to produce clean energy amid growing concerns.

However, a biological mushroom above only releases a small amount of electricity. Scientists are trying to connect many mushrooms together to light up a small lamp. Besides, they also studied how to make bio-fungi produce higher, more useful electric current.