News and Views
Nature Materials 1, 211 - 212 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nmat782
There is a Corrigendum (February 2003) associated with this News and Views.
Fuel cell technology: A sweeter fuel
Kevin Kendall1
- Kevin Kendall is at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. e-mail: k.kendall@bham.ac.uk
Abstract
Eating sugar gives us a boost when we feel tired because our cells use it as fuel to produce energy. Likewise, sugar can now be used to produce power in artificial biological fuel cells that function in a physiological environment.
