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Carbon Nanostructures Create Better Ultracapacitors

Posted May 31, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

By combining the powers of two single-atom-thick carbon structures, researchers at the George Washington University's Micro-propulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory have created a new class of ultracapacitors that offer higher performance at low cost. The resulting material shows great promise by capitalizing on the synergy of mixing graphene flakes with single-walled carbon nanotubes, two carbon nanostructures with complementary properties. The device was first described in the Journal of Applied Physics.


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06/01/2014 5:16 AM

Such interesting technologies always remind me of my (male) school physics teacher (about 1959 or so!), who when asked how big a 1 Farad capacitor would be, answered that there would never be one as it would be around the size of a football pitch (with the current technology of the day, which he DIDN'T say or know!!).....

He must be long dead, so he may have never seen how big they can be nowadays..... But he taught me a lot, including photography in the school camera club, for which I am still profiting from and still VERY grateful for. A really great teacher, always interesting to listen to. He started me on the road to technology in general and specifically in both electrics and electronics....

Sadly I have forgotten his name after over 50 years....

Funnily enough I still remember the name of my (young & very attractive redhead lady) Biology teacher, who hid in a cupboard to hide her embarrassment when teaching sex.....but she spoke loudly so that all could hear!!!

I didn't realise until YEARS later, just how attractive she was. Miss Ashton, please forgive me!! She was also a really nice person.

Most, but not all, of my teachers were great, only a couple of arseholes, one of which I promised to lay out if he touched me with his cane (allowed in Bristish schools then! See below)....He stopped trying! Later he had to apologise to me in front of the whole school, unreservidly....my father required it.....as I was not guilty of the offense, just being over honest when asked a question, I am still the same today.

Which means that certain people, here also, who cannot live with or even understand the full truth, get annoyed by me.

Their problem. Stay out of the kitchen if you don't like the heat!!!!

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The cane was phased out in several primary schools during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In England, cane was banned in state-sponsored secondary schools in 1987. In private schools, it was banned in 1999.

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