Not exact matches
Unlike traditional supercapacitors, which use the same
material for both
electrodes, the anode and cathode in an asymmetric supercapacitor are made up of
different materials.
We have a short time period, and so we do about a billion experiments at a time, where we can genetically engineer our viruses to express
different random peptide sequences and we can, you know, [in] about a one microliter sample we can introduce about a billion
different viruses to a semiconductor wafer or an
electrode and have them see if they can actually molecularly imprint it or try to do a chemical and physical map to it so that they can actually then have a template to grow that
material.
But in a paper posted online today in Nature Nanotechnology, the MIT team, led by
materials scientist Yang Shao - Horn, took a very
different approach: using carbon nanotubes to replace the oxide - based positive
electrode.
Developing a mathematical model of a multilayered polymer cantilever coated with metal
electrodes, the researchers systematically calculated how
different material parameters affected the energy output.
An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of
materials that make up a lithium - ion battery
electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, and how the surface is very
different from the rest of the
material.
Scientists in the consortium will be studying
different materials that could be used for a lithium - metal battery's positive
electrode, while working to prevent unwanted chemical reactions that could impair the battery's performance.