rice husks Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:25:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Silicon From Rice Husks Increase Capacity of Phone and Car Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/silicon-from-rice-husks-increase-capacity-of-phone-and-car-batteries-20130712/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/silicon-from-rice-husks-increase-capacity-of-phone-and-car-batteries-20130712/#comments Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:27:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=39200 Rice husks, the waste product of rice cultivation, might just be the ever-so-needed source of silicon, which could boost the capacity of conventional lithium-ion batteries of smartphones and electric and hybrid vehicles. Research conducted by a team of Korean scientists and published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, […]

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