Looking inside supercapacitors could help to build higher performing parts Researchers from the University of Cambridge, together with French collaborators based in Toulouse, have developed a method that allows the inside of supercapacitors to be viewed at the atomic level. The team says this approach could be used in order to optimise and improve the devices. By using a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and scales sensitive enough to detect changes in mass of a 1µg, the researchers could visualise how ions move around in a supercapacitor. They found that, while charging, different processes are at work in the two identical pieces of carbon 'sponge' which function as the electrodes. Dr John Griffin, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry, said: "[Supercapacitors are] much better at absorbing charge than batteries, but since they have much lower density, they hold far less of that charge. Being able to see wh...
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