Researchers Tout Electricity Storage Tech That Could Recharge Devices In Minutes 31
coondoggie writes "Vanderbilt University researchers say they have come up with a way to store electricity on a silicon-based supercapacitor that would let mobile phones recharge in seconds and let them continue to operate for weeks without recharging. The Vanderbilt team said they used porous silicon -- a material with a controllable and well-defined nanostructure made by electrochemically etching the surface of a silicon wafer. This let them create surfaces with optimal nanostructures for supercapacitor electrodes, but it left them with a major problem: Silicon is generally considered unsuitable for use in supercapacitors because it reacts readily with some of chemicals in the electrolytes that provide the ions that store the electrical charge, the researchers said."
Duplodocus (Score:5, Funny)
Duplodocus [slashdot.org]
Researchers Tout Rapid Dup Technology (Score:5, Funny)
Minimizes intervals between duplicate stories to only 6.5 hours.
Again! (Score:5, Funny)
It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the story again!
Second Post! (Score:5, Funny)
Second Post!
Re:Seriously, Slashdot? (Score:5, Funny)
Be a little patient.
It's taking a while to teach editing to the dolphins with their new Minority Report-style interfaces.
Also, between the data caps and the slow GPU progress, there's almost no band left. And the NSA is using most of that to monitor Chancellor Merkel's mobile phone, which, coincidentally, is powered by a silicon supercapacitor.
Re:Seriously, Slashdot? (Score:5, Funny)
It's taking a while to teach editing to the dolphins with their new Minority Report-style interfaces.
The twin inverted post repeater (TWIPR) approach uses the same technique as dolphins do to capture page views. Like dolphins, Slashdot editors post two times in quick succession to cancel out background noise. This finding, as demonstrated by this duplicate post, explains how Slashdot editors post two times in quick succession to cancel out background noise.