{"id":179036,"date":"2023-12-24T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T21:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/new-carbon-material-sets-energy-storage-record-likely-to-advance-supercapacitors"},"modified":"2023-12-24T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T21:51:17","slug":"new-carbon-material-sets-energy-storage-record-likely-to-advance-supercapacitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/new-carbon-material-sets-energy-storage-record-likely-to-advance-supercapacitors","title":{"rendered":"New carbon material sets energy-storage record, likely to advance supercapacitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-carbon-material-sets-energy-storage-record-likely-to-advance-supercapacitors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guided by machine learning, chemists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best commercial material. A supercapacitor made with the new material could store more energy\u2014improving regenerative brakes, power electronics and auxiliary power supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy combining a data-driven method and our research experience, we created a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon material<\/a> with enhanced physicochemical and electrochemical properties that pushed the boundary of energy storage for carbon supercapacitors to the next level,\u201d said chemist Tao Wang of ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p>Wang led the study, titled \u201cMachine-learning-assisted material discovery of oxygen-rich highly <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/porous+carbon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">porous carbon<\/a> active materials for aqueous supercapacitor\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-40282-1\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, with chemist Sheng Dai of ORNL and UTK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guided by machine learning, chemists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best commercial material. A supercapacitor made with the new material could store more energy\u2014improving regenerative brakes, power electronics and auxiliary power supplies. \u201cBy combining a data-driven method [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179036","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}