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Scientist build battery in a nanowire: Hybrid energy storage device is as small as it can possibly get. The Rice lab of Professor Pulickel Ajayan has packed an entire lithium ion energy storage device into a single nanowire. Researchers described testing two versions of their battery/supercapacitor hybrid. The first is a sandwich with nickel/tin anode, polyethylene oxide electrolyte and polyaniline cathode layers. It was built as proof that lithium ions would move efficiently through the anode to the electrolyte and then to the supercapacitor-like cathode, which stores the ions in bulk and gives the device the ability to charge and discharge quickly.
The second one packs the same capabilities into a single nanowire. The researchers built centimeter scale arrays containing thousands of nanowire devices each about 150 nanometers wide.
A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, thousands of times smaller than a human hair.
Scientist build battery in a nanowire: Hybrid energy storage device is as small as it can possibly get. The Rice lab of Professor Pulickel Ajayan has packed an entire lithium ion energy storage device into a single nanowire. Researchers described testing two versions of their battery/supercapacitor hybrid. The first is a sandwich with nickel/tin anode, polyethylene oxide electrolyte and polyaniline cathode layers. It was built as proof that lithium ions would move efficiently through the anode to the electrolyte and then to the supercapacitor-like cathode, which stores the ions in bulk and gives the device the ability to charge and discharge quickly.
The second one packs the same capabilities into a single nanowire. The researchers built centimeter scale arrays containing thousands of nanowire devices each about 150 nanometers wide.
A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, thousands of times smaller than a human hair.
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