Geneticists can store data in synthetic DNA as a medium for long-term storage due to its density, ease of copy, longevity and sustainability. Research in the field had recently advanced with new ...

Scientists have come up with a lithium ion capacitor using electrodes produced from wood particles that are discarded as waste in sawmills. This biomass is both readily available and sustainable, ...

The left image shows a beaker with a brown sludge. The right image shows two small metal components and a pellet-sized sample placed on a flat surface. Researchers converted bourbon distillery waste ...

Charge storage is a crucial aspect of modern technology, enabling the use of various electronic devices such as batteries, supercapacitors, and electrochemical sensors. However, the performance of ...

Brick walls might some day power your lights and laptop, thanks to a new technique that converts building blocks into battery-like devices (Nat. Commun. 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17708-1). By ...

MIT researchers have discovered that when you mix cement and carbon black with water, the resulting concrete self-assembles into an energy-storing supercapacitor that can put out enough juice to power ...

Researchers at the University of Southern Calif.'s Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute say they have come up with iron electrodes that could make iron-air batteries practical for storing energy as ...

The diverse and tunable surface and bulk chemistry of MXenes affords valuable and distinctive properties, which can be useful across many components of energy storage devices. MXenes offer diverse ...

Ultracapacitors store electrical energy through static charge separation in a double-layer of electrodes, instead of chemical reactions like in batteries. This allows them to charge and discharge ...