A newly published academic study has found chitin to be a plausible sustainable energy source for electric vehicles
The paper, “A sustainable chitosan-zinc electrolyte for high-rate zinc-metal batteries,” was authored by University of Maryland Professor Liangbing Hu, was published in September 2022 in the scientific journal Matter.
Chitin is the primary material in the exoskeletons of many crustaceans, including crab, shrimp, and lobster. A battery made with chitin-derived chitosan and zinc developed by Hu showed an energy efficiency of 99.7 percent after 1,000 battery cycles, the study found…