Sony develops World’s Most Powerful Sugar-based Bio Battery Prototype

Sony Sugar-based Bio Battery Sony has developed an innovative rechargeable bio battery that has the capacity to produce power with sugar and water generating around 50 milliwatts of electricity.

The casing of the Sony bio battery carries a vegetable-based plastic.

With this launch, Sony biobattery gets the tag of being the world’s highest level of power for a small biobattery.

Interestingly, the battery generates electricity through the application of power generation principles that are found in living organisms. The electricity is being generated from carbohydrate sources, while making use of enzymes in sugar as its catalyst.
According to Sony, as glucose is one of the photosynthesized substances and a renewable energy resource plentifully existing on earth, batteries that use it as a power source should be environmentally friendly.

Read on to find out how the whole concept turned into reality. Initially, Sony developed a system that can generate electricity from sugar. This involves immobilizing enzymes and the mediator, electronic conduction materials, while retaining the activity of the enzymes at the anode.

Furthermore, the company also created new cathode structures that supplies oxygen to the electrode, maintaining the appropriate water content. Finally, Sony optimized the electrolyte for these two technologies and enhanced the power output levels.

Sony will develop immobilization systems, electrode composition and other technologies to improve the battery’s performance and durability.