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New "Frozen Smoke" Material Could Become The Best Energy Storage Ever

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:42:37 +0000

Belonging to the family of the world's lightest solids, a new material invented by two researchers from the University of Central Florida, Assoc. Prof. Lei Zhai and postdoctoral associate Jianhua Zou could constitute the world's best energy storage material for supercapacitors and lithium batteries.

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Thermopower Waves: MIT's Invention That Could Change Batteries and Devices Forever

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:10:02 +0000

Thermopower waves are a phenomenon that happens when powerful waves of energy shoot through carbon nanotube wires, creating electricity. The researchers from MIT are responsible for this discovery, thus opening a new area of rare energy research.

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Imperfecting Carbon Nanotubes Makes Them Very Good Fast-Charging Batteries

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:30:15 +0000

Prabhakar Bandaru, a professor in the UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, along with graduate student Mark Hoefer, have discovered that artificially introducing defects in carbon nanotubes would increase their energy storage capacity.

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