A collaborative research team has unveiled a high-performance self-charging energy storage supercapacitor that efficiently captures and stores solar energy, a significant advancement for sustainable ...

Jeongmin Kim, Senior Researcher at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee), in joint research with Damin Lee, Researcher at the RLRC [1] of Kyungpook National University (President Young-woo Heo), has developed ...

Solar and wind energy are abundantly available worldwide at no cost, but the big problem is the difficulty in storing it. Mechanical devices such as flywheels are inefficient. Lithium-ion batteries ...

Although most energy storage solutions on a grid-level focus on batteries, a group of researchers at MIT and Harvard University have proposed using supercapacitors instead, with their 2023 research ...

Scientists in Korea have fabricated a solar-powered charging device that can reportedly achieve a power density of 2,555.6 W kg and an energy efficiency of 63%. The system uses nickel-based compounds ...

The supercapacitor is an extremely promising energy storage technology, and though they have yet to reach parity with the best batteries in terms of energy density, offers considerable promise for a ...

Researchers have developed a new form of carbon-cement concrete capable of storing electrical energy, opening possibilities for buildings and infrastructure that can also serve as large-scale energy ...

A type of plastic called PEDOT that can conduct electricity is currently used to protect the internal components of electronic devices from static electricity and in organic solar cells and ...

Unlike batteries, which store and release energy through chemical reactions, supercapacitors store energy electrostatically. This allows them to charge and discharge much faster. A supercapacitor ...

Supercapacitors possess a high cycle efficiency (more than a million cycles), a large number of charging cycles higher than 95%, and a faster discharge time with a longer life. The high value of a ...