Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 player, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket? Sounds like science fiction, but it may become a real... Read more
Solar cells that produce electricity 24/7, not just when the sun is shining. Mobile phones with built-in power cells that recharge in seconds and work for weeks between charges. These are ju... Read more
Researchers report that wood-biochar supercapacitors can produce as much power as today’s activated-carbon supercapacitors at a fraction of the cost – and with environmentally friendly bypro... Read more
Discovery could provide rapid power to small devices, large industrial equipment Taking a significant step toward improving the power delivery of systems ranging from urban electrical grids... Read more
Florida State University inks deal to license new supercapacitor invention The ink is still drying on an agreement between Florida State University and Tallahassee-based General Capacitor LL... Read more
Enable a new generation of high-performance portable electronics and solar cells You are this close to the breakthrough energy storage technology of the next millennium if you a) have a comp... Read more
A breakthrough in supercapacitor performance has been achieved with the development of a device that can store as much energy as a battery while recharging in seconds. The graphene-based sup... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Supercapacitors, also called electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs) or ultracapacitors, are electrochemical capacitors that have an unusually high energy density when c... Read more
For several months I’ve been telling readers that emerging lead-carbon battery technologies will be game changers in alternative energy storage. Last week, The Economist published an article... Read more