Consumer technology today relies primarily on batteries to fulfill energy needs. Conventional batteries use chemical reactions to store energy, offering high energy density, which is to say that they ...
The newly developed technology overcomes the limitations of existing supercapacitors by utilizing an innovative fiber structure composed of single-walled carbon nanotubes and the conductive polymer ...
A group of researchers led by Dr. Bon-Cheol Ku and Dr. Seo Gyun Kim of the Carbon Composite Materials Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Professor Yuanzhe Piao ...
The figure above shows a comparison of the mechanical and electrical conductivity property enhancement of functionalized carbon nanotube fiber compared to raw fiber, showing a 33-fold increase in ...
Left) Schematic illustration of a composite of CNTs and PANIs. It shows that the covalently bonded PANIs are evenly distributed among the CNTs and that each PANI can act as a nanoscale cell. (Right) ...