Sugar and Herbicide to power future Fuel Cells?

Glucose, the human body’s preferred energy source could someday power our favorite gadgets, cars and even homes! Researchers at Brigham Young University have developed an amazing fuel cell that harvests electricity from glucose and other sugars by using a common herbicide (weed killer) as a catalyst.

“Carbohydrates are very energy rich,” said BYU chemistry professor Gerald Watt. “What we needed was a catalyst that would extract the electrons from glucose and transfer them to an electrode.”
The surprising solution turned out to be a common weed killer, as …