News tagged with electrolytic capacitors

Nano bundles pack a powerful punch

Rice University researchers have created a solid-state, nanotube-based supercapacitor that promises to combine the best qualities of high-energy batteries and fast-charging capacitors in a device suitable ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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International research team develops ultrahigh-power energy storage devices

A team of researchers from the U.S. and France report the development of a micro-supercapacitor with remarkable properties. The paper will be published in the premier scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology online on Aug ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Researchers develop graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular capacitors that you would find in your TV or computer in that they store substantially ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Carbon foam: The key ingredient of a better battery?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A lighter, greener, cheaper, longer-lasting battery. Who wouldn’t want that?

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Researchers have devised the world's first energy-storage membrane

A team from the National University of Singapore's Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI), led by principle investigator Dr Xie Xian Ning, has developed the world's first energy-storage membrane.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6

High speed charging device - success in high capacity graphene-based supercapacitors

Professor Jie Tang, Group Leader of the 1D Nanomaterials Research Group of the Materials Processing Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, and Mr. Qian Cheng, a doctoral student and NIMS Junior Researcher in the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

New rechargeable batteries needed: A microporous polymer is an unusually powerful supercapacitor

(PhysOrg.com) -- For future electric vehicles, powerful notebook computers, and other portable devices, we need a new generation of energy storage materials that are better suited to modern needs than current ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Packing the ions: Discovery boosts supercapacitor energy storage

Flat is in the eye of the beholder. When you're talking about nanomaterials, however, that eye is pretty much useless unless it's looking through an electron microscope or at a computer visualization. Yet ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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New production process for NiO/Ni nanocomposite electrodes for supercapacitors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conversion to renewable energy sources like wind and sun is only a question of time. Because wind and solar radiation vary in strength, the increase in renewable energy sources will cause ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Advanced carbon aerogels for energy applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because of their unique structure, carbon aerogels may be used for hydrogen and electrical energy storage in the future.

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Time ripe to move energy storage idea off drawing board

Need has caught up with Gerhard Welsch's ideas. Welsch, a professor of materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, began patenting designs for a small, light, powerful and reliable capacitor in 2000.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Electrical engineering professor working to make solar power more affordable

With the growing need for alternative energy sources, one professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University has developed a way for the average household to install ...

Technology / Engineering

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