nanotube battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:10:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Thermopower Waves: MIT's Invention That Could Change Batteries and Devices Forever https://www.greenoptimistic.com/thermopower-wave-mit-20100309/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/thermopower-wave-mit-20100309/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:10:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6887 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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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/thermopower-wave-mit-20100309/feed/ 2 6887 Nanotube Ink-Treated Office Paper Could Make Batteries More Potent https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nanotube-treated-office-paper-20100301/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nanotube-treated-office-paper-20100301/#respond Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:47:23 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6661 Yi Cui, a researcher from Stanford and his team have succeeded making office paper into an electrode by dipping it into nanotube ink. The resulted dipped paper becomes a strong, flexible and highly conductive material that could be incorporated into lightweight batteries or serving as an electrode in high-energy ultracapacitors. The nanotube-treated paper can store much more energy than classic batteries.

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