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A sweeter fuel

Nature Materials volume 1, pages 211–212 (2002)Cite this article

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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.

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Figure 1: Configuration of the elements in the glucose-powered fuel cell constructed by Mano and colleagues4.

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