{"id":135469,"date":"2022-02-11T04:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-flexible-supercapacitor-could-boost-the-lifespan-of-wearables"},"modified":"2022-02-11T04:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:22:19","slug":"new-flexible-supercapacitor-could-boost-the-lifespan-of-wearables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-flexible-supercapacitor-could-boost-the-lifespan-of-wearables","title":{"rendered":"New flexible supercapacitor could boost the lifespan of wearables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-flexible-supercapacitor-could-boost-the-lifespan-of-wearables.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the University of Surrey\u2019s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) and the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil, has developed a new type of supercapacitor that can be integrated into footwear or clothing, an advance with applications in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/wearable\/\">wearables<\/a> and IoT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/IoT\/\">Internet of Things<\/a>) devices.<\/p>\n<p>A supercapacitor is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/electricity\/\">electricity<\/a> storage device, similar to a battery, but it stores and releases electricity much faster.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have devised a novel method for the development of flexible supercapacitors based on carbon nanomaterials. The new method, which is cheaper and less time-consuming to fabricate, involves transferring aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays from a silicon wafer to a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) matrix. This is then coated in a material called polyaniline (PANI), which stores energy through a mechanism known as pseudocapacitance, offering outstanding energy storage properties with exceptional mechanical integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from the University of Surrey\u2019s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) and the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil, has developed a new type of supercapacitor that can be integrated into footwear or clothing, an advance with applications in wearables and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. A supercapacitor is an electricity storage device, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418,4,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet","category-nanotechnology","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}