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Gadgets and vehicles powered by the very materials they’re built from may soon be possible, thanks to a new structural supercapacitor developed by UC San Diego engineers. The device provides both structural support and energy storage, paving the way for smartphones with casings that double as electricity reservoirs, or electric cars that draw power from its doors and floorboard.
Full story: today.ucsd.edu/story/new-energy-storing-material-could-al...
Photos by David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
UCSD-JacobsSchool-20230921-Ng_Lab-supercapacitor-08850-8MP
Gadgets and vehicles powered by the very materials they’re built from may soon be possible, thanks to a new structural supercapacitor developed by UC San Diego engineers. The device provides both structural support and energy storage, paving the way for smartphones with casings that double as electricity reservoirs, or electric cars that draw power from its doors and floorboard.
Full story: today.ucsd.edu/story/new-energy-storing-material-could-al...
Photos by David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering