Sepp Hasslberger: Nanoporous Material Combines the Best of Batteries and Supercapacitors

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Storing electricity for later use is a factor that imposes limits on what we can do with our technological gadgets.  If this turns out to be commercially viable, the battery-supercapacitor hybrid being developed could improve things tremendously.

Nanoporous Material Combines the Best of Batteries and Supercapacitors



Nanoporous material combines the best of batteries and supercapacitors | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.itTo make the battery-supercapacitor hybrid, the Rice team deposited a nickel layer on a backing material. They then etched the nickel layer to create pores five nanometers in diameter. The result is high surface area for storing ions.

