Turning bricks into batteries
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Researchers have transformed ordinary red bricks into batteries by injecting gases that enable the material to store…
Researchers have transformed ordinary red bricks into batteries by injecting gases that enable the material to store…
Pumping cheap iron-oxide-rich red bricks with specific vapors that form polymers enables the bricks to become electrical charge…
A new study in Nature Communications, has worked out how to modify red bricks to store enough electricity to power devices…
One of the biggest barriers to the renewable energy revolution is working out how to store power when the sun doesn’t shine and…
Foto: Washington University. Röda tegelstenar – några av världens billigaste och mest kända byggnadsmaterial – kan omvandlas…
From Washington University in St.Louis August 11…
A few years ago, the physicists Olga Goulko, Damián Pitalúa-García and Adrian Kent proposed the grasshopper problem. Think of a…
Imagine a world where instead of threading the walls of your house with copper wires that deliver electricity from the grid…
Quando relacionada à cena tech, a palavra "tijolo" quase sempre se refere aos grandes carregadores de notebooks e outros…
Enlarge Usually the phrase “power brick” refers affectionately to the AC adapter of something like a laptop. But what if…
Researchers store energy in red bricks, providing a low-cost battery alternative to power a home. The post The bricks and…
vor 11 Min. Electric storage heating has been around for decades, but this is a bit different, storing power rather than heat.
Electric storage heating has been around for decades, but this is a bit different, storing power rather than heat. After a…
Electric storage heating has been around for decades, but this is a bit different, storing power rather than heat. After a…
Red brick is a universal building material produced by thousand-year-old technology that has seldom served any other purpose…
Bricks could do double duty as building materials and supercapacitors. Big_Ryan/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty…
Regular bricks can be turned into energy storage devices through a process that uses their red pigment to create a network of…
Credit: D’Arcy laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St.
Как оказалось, они сочетают в себе два важных парметра -- пористость и высокое содержание железа (III).
A novel polymer coating turns the familiar red bricks into blue semiconductors.
Boring old bricks might not seem like something that can really be made high-tech, but researchers keep proving us wrong. Now…
Research could pave way for cheap supercapacitor storage of renewable energyThe humble house brick has been turned into a…