Now charge your mobile phones, laptops with jackfruit

Alappuzha: Jackfruit is not a mere delicious fruit, but a source of power that helps charge our gadgets like mobile phone and laptop, it has been found out. Prof Vincent Gomas, associate professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the University of Sydney in Australia, found out the possibility of utilizing jackfruit for making power banks.

Carbon aerogel is produced when the core of the jackfruit is cooked using autoclave and then freeze dried. This is turned into electrodes to store electricity. The researchers claimed that more amount of power can be stored quickly in these capacitors compared to ordinary batteries.

The jackfruit capacitors is also helpful for fast charging mobile phones and laptops. As the carbon aerogel capacitor is produced from biodegradable waste through simple, chemical-free methods, it is eco-friendly. Its production cost is low but capacity is high, the researcher claimed. Huge amount of bio waste is available in the jackfruit processing units in Kerala.