SC+Batteries: a single solution of capacity and power

How integrated hybrid systems optimise the use of energy, safeguarding the life cycle of electrochemical batteries and revolutionizing the electrification process. Not the usual hybrid, but an innovative system that is revolutionizing the current energy sector, making it possible to accelerate the process of electrification now undertaken in many sectors. We are not talking about the […]

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New Supercapacitor to Help Wearable Electronics

This week, researchers have demonstrated their design for a new supercapacitor that provides a potential power solution for wearable electronics. What problems do wearable technologies face, and how does flexible electronics help to make wearable devices a reality? Ridged Designs The wearable electronics industry is currently in its infancy, and products in this field are […]

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PNNL team develops carbon nanotube-silicon microspheres as high-performance Li-ion anodes

Silicon is an appealing anode material for Li-ion batteries because it can hold about 10 times the electrical charge per gram compared to graphite. However, silicon suffers from large volume change during lithiation/delithiation, leading to structure failure. Although nanostructured Si can mitigate that structure failure, nanomaterials, with their high surface area and low tap density, […]

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Supercapacitor promises storage, high power and fast charging

A new supercapacitor based on manganese oxide could combine the storage capacity of batteries with the high power and fast charging of other supercapacitors, according to researchers at Penn State and two universities in China. “Manganese oxide is definitely a promising material,” said Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics and faculty […]

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Tesla patents a new electrode for its 1-million-mile battery

Tesla patents a new NCA electrode that is likely going to be used in its new battery cell built in-house, which is expected to be longer-lasting and cheaper. We previously reported on Tesla’s battery research partner, Jeff Dahn and his team at Dalhousie University, unveiling the impressive results of tests on e new battery cell […]

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China team develops new high-performance cathode for Li-sulfur batteries

Researchers led by Prof. Jian Liu and Prof.Zhongshuai Wu from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed Fe1-xS-decorated mesoporous carbon spheres as a cathode material for lithium-sulfur batteries. Fe1−xS‐NC has a high specific surface area (627 m2 g−1), large pore volume (0.41 cm3 g−1), and enhanced adsorption and electrocatalytic transition […]

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Electric bus in La Spezia with “Supercapacitor”

Electric bus in La Spezia with “Supercapacitor” Supercapacitor is a capacitor that eliminates traditional batteries and offers decidedly superior performance. They designed it at the Polytechnic of Milan and for now it is being tested on buses. It could soon attract the attention of car manufacturers and revolutionize the electric drive mobility sector. The capacitor […]

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Supercapacitors: the batteries of the future?

Supercapacitors, with their unique characteristics, are replacing batteries in some applications. So does the future hold purely capacitive devices, with batteries mostly relegated to the past? Or is the advance of supercapacitors bound to stop? Batteries vs Supercapacitors Most of the devices around us have a battery, and often it is a lithium ion battery, […]

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Energy storage systems: the solution in graphene silicon?

Researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee are studying renewable energy storage systems in silicon chips thanks to supercapacitors. Vanderbilt scientists created the first supercapacitor (also called supercapacitor, that is, a particular electric capacitor capable of storing huge quantities of energy compared to its small size) made of silicon. This invention opens up the possibility […]

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