Heat Is the Hidden Enemy of Supercapacitors, and Engineers Are Fighting Back
A new comprehensive review reveals that supercapacitor lifespan halves for every 10 K of temperature rise and maps out the ...
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Silver Doping Makes Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Both Stronger and More Electrically Responsive
A new study shows that doping zinc oxide nanoparticles with silver simultaneously increases their hardness and elastic moduli while boosting ...
Carbon Nanomaterials Supercharge Conductive Polymer Polyaniline
A new review shows that fusing polyaniline with carbon nanomaterials from graphene to carbon dots dramatically boosts capacitance, cycling stability, ...
Cheap Water-Based Recipe Turns Graphene Into a Record-Setting Supercapacitor Material
Researchers have used water-soluble inorganic nitrogen precursors in a hydrothermal process to fine-tune nitrogen chemistry on graphene, producing a supercapacitor ...
Cheap Molybdenum and Zinc Sulfide Electrode Gets a Boost Simply by Changing the Electrolyte
Researchers in Saudi Arabia report that simply doubling the potassium hydroxide electrolyte concentration boosts the capacitance of a MoS2/ZnS nanocomposite ...
Black Gram Skins Turned Into High-Performance Supercapacitor Electrodes
Researchers in India have converted Vigna mungo seed skin, a waste byproduct of black gram milling, into KOH-activated porous carbon ...
Carbon-Coated MoS2 Delivers Record Supercapacitor Power and Rapid Dye Breakdown
Researchers in India report that an activated carbon coating activates the inert basal planes of layered MoS2, yielding a hybrid ...
Vanadium Swap Turns MOF Into Defect-Rich Cobalt Hydroxide for Water Splitting
Researchers used room-temperature vanadium cation exchange to reconstruct MOF-derived cobalt hydroxide electrodes with oxygen vacancies that dramatically boost oxygen evolution, ...
Cerium Oxide Meets Carbon Nitride in a Supercapacitor Electrode That Barely Wears Out
A hydrothermally synthesized CeO2/graphitic carbon nitride heterostructure delivers 675 F g−1 capacitance, 99.7% retention over 5000 cycles, and a surface-dominated ...
Seaweed Gel Turned Into Sponge-Like Carbon Powers Supercapacitors for 50,000 Cycles
Researchers converted agar-agar into a nitrogen-doped carbon aerogel with ultrahigh surface area that powers a 1.3-volt aqueous supercapacitor retaining 87 ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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