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Advancement: Ultracapacitors as batteries

News: Energy Storage    June 22, 2010
Call it ‘better batteries’ or simply fulfilling the need to store electrical energy for use ‘off line,’ the technology to improve energy storage goes on apace – step by step. In this case, the step is to solve a problem with ultracapacitors. These are the supercharged versions of capacitors – the long used technology for [...]
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Nanotech ink plus a piece of paper: A novel(ty) battery

News: Energy Storage    December 9, 2009
The search for a better battery is endless. The underlying physics present limitations that are hard to surpass, but there’s seemingly no end to human ingenuity when it comes to finding new ways of storing electrical energy. Try this one: Scientists at Stanford University (California, USA) have created an ink compounded with nanotechnology materials, dipped [...]
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