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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