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Researchers Developer Micro Supercapacitor That Delivers Power In Milliseconds
08/19/2010, The smart researchers from France and the US have come up with a micro supercapacitor that has some interesting potential. The capacitor uses electrodes made of onion-like carbon, a material where each individual particle is made up of concentric spheres [...]
Wax And Soap Could Help Create A Better Rechargeable Battery
08/13/2010, Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are commonplace nowadays, and can be found in devices such as mobile phones, laptops, and various gadgets. The batteries that are used to power these devices often use an oxide of metal such as cobalt, nickel, or [...]
Silicon That Melts While Cooling Could Lead To Cheaper Electronic Devices
08/03/2010, Some smart folks over at MIT have discovered that silicon can actually be made to melt when its temperature is reduced, when mixed with the right amount of other metals. While you’d normally need to get it up to 1,414 [...]
Wafer-thin Plastic To Be Battery Technology Of The Future?
02/07/2010, Battery design, such as thickness and lifespan, is always an issue that folks are trying to tackle and improve. Now it seems that the folks over at Imperial College London have come up with a rather useful development. The latest [...]
New Blob Material Responds To Magnetism
11/03/2009, Material that hardens and softens depending on the situation is always cool, after all, we fairly sure some of you want to make your own Iron Man costume sometime in the near future. A team of researchers at Japan’s Yamagata [...]
