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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Aussie researchers turn wine into green battery tech

UNSW Professor Neeraj Sharma with battery prototypes created using food-based acids. (Richard Freeman/AAP PHOTOS)

Leftover wine and overripe citrus fruit could be used to create powerful batteries after Australian chemists uncovered a fresh use for food acids. 

Researchers from the University of NSW announced they had been granted a patent for the technology that they say could be used to power everything from smartphones and electric vehicles to household solar storage in future. 

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