A Paper Could Turn Into An Instant Battery!
Many scientists said some years ago that a paper could be turned into an instant battery. But now it seems that they have made it work. Recently scientists at Stanford University in California have successfully turned paper coated with ink made of silver and carbon nanomaterials into a “paper battery” that holds promise for new types of lightweight, high-performance energy storage.
Stanford researcher Yi Cui says that dipping an ordinary piece of paper into ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires and it turns into a battery or super-capacitor. And this paper super capacitors can be used for all kinds of applications that require instant high power. Isn’t this amazing!!
Earlier research found that silicon nanowires could be used to make batteries 10 times as powerful as lithium-ion batteries now used to power devices such as laplop computers.
Yi Cui predicts the biggest impact may be in large-scale storage of electricity on the distribution grid.
