A team of researchers from Vanderbilt’s Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory have created a new device that can store and discharge large amounts of electricity, while the device is exposed to vibrations and shock.
The device is a supercapacitor that utilizes electrically charged ions on a porous surface and can charge and discharge in minutes and operate for millions of cycles. Traditional batteries store energy in chemical reactions, can only run for a thousand cycles and take much longer to recharge.
