(Nanowerk News) Supercapacitors have the superb ability to capture and store energy. Researchers can use different materials and fabrication methods to make them flexible, thin and appropriate for use ...

Researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology and Southern University of Science and Technology have fabricated bifunctional flexible electrochromic energy-storage devices based on silver ...

Researchers at the Chung-Ang University, South Korea, have developed a new fabrication process for manufacturing flexible supercapacitors on paper. The new process vertically integrates multiple gold ...

Before the age of the smartphone, mobile phone manufacturers were locked in an arms race to see who could create a smaller, but still usable device. Smartphones came along, and now the arms race is ...

(Nanowerk News) Wearable devices such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, and virtual reality headsets are becoming commonplace. They are powered by flexible electronics that consist of electrodes with ...

Since they can handle rapid, high-current charge/discharge cycles, supercapacitors are ideal for absorbing peak loads and ...

Batteries have powered the clean energy revolution, but their chemistry can make them too slow and too bulky for applications ...

Using a simple layer-by-layer coating technique, researchers from the U.S. and Korea have developed a paper-based flexible supercapacitor that could be used to power wearable devices. The device uses ...

Consider an electric vehicle that takes only a few seconds to recharge while braking and then using that energy to power up the vehicle until the next stop. Imagine a lightweight smartphone that, ...

Researchers based at Jilin University in China developed a new fabrication process to produce flexible 2D supercapacitors with high conductivity, even when underwater. The work has implications for ...