Via Ecouterre : "An ordinary cotton t-shirt could someday charge your cellphone | Ce monde à inventer ! | Scoop.it

 

Bridgette Meinhold : "Xiaodong Li, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Lihong Bao, a postdoctoral associate, transformed an ordinary cotton tee into a supercapacitor by soaking it in fluoride solution and baking it at high temperatures.

 

The process didn’t just convert the cellulose fibers into activated carbon, however; it also allowed the material to flex without breaking…

 

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> University of South Carolina : http://bit.ly/WMTvuY
> Xiaodong Li Laboratory : http://bit.ly/WMTCa3
> Lihong Bao Webpage : http://bit.ly/WMTLtZ