The best laptops and smartphones of tomorrow could be much lighter and store more energy
Scientists have devised a new type of structural material that could double as a source of power, with these new structural supercapacitors matching the performance of state-of-the-art energy-storing devices.
The device created by a team at UC San Diego, led by professors of electral and computer engineering, could be used to construct, say, gadgets or vehicles and provide them with extra power without overloading them.
They relied on interfacial engineering in creating this new material, according to their paper, published in Science Advances. Structural electrodes were intertwined wth a special type of carbon-fibre, as well as a graphene exide, that raised both its energy capacity and strength.
