Carbon Nanotube Composites for Supercapacitors
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By Bob Nidever in Latest Inventions Published: Thursday, 08 January 09 - 11:41 PM (GMT) |
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UCLA engineers have developed a nanocomposite material that vastly improves the charge storage capability of electrochemical supercapacitors. This innovation poises ECs for commercialization in electronic, communication, medical, and automotive industries.
Researchers at UCLA have created a nanocomposite material that vastly improves the charge storage capability of the EC/ supercapacitors. The unique composite consists of vanadium pentaoxide nanowires (VNW) with varying amounts of carbon nanotube (CNT) supported vanadium pentaoxides. This unique CNT-VNW structure achieves higher specific energy, higher specific power, and enhanced electrochemical capacitance for supercapacitor applications. Furthermore, the CNT-VNW composite structure imparts higher capacitance than either CNT or VNW alone. MORE [2009-058]
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