{"id":190451,"date":"2024-06-01T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T17:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/supercapacitor-discovery-could-allow-laptops-to-be-charged-in-just-1-minute-engineer-claims"},"modified":"2024-06-01T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T17:25:22","slug":"supercapacitor-discovery-could-allow-laptops-to-be-charged-in-just-1-minute-engineer-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/supercapacitor-discovery-could-allow-laptops-to-be-charged-in-just-1-minute-engineer-claims","title":{"rendered":"Supercapacitor Discovery Could Allow Laptops to be Charged in Just 1 Minute, Engineer Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supercapacitor-discovery-could-allow-laptops-to-be-charged-in-just-1-minute-engineer-claims2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new discovery could pave the way for supercapacitors that can charge phones and laptops in 60 seconds and electric cars in a mere ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-laptop-minute-supercapacitors-clues.html\" class=\"\">press release<\/a>, the University of Colorado at Boulder announced that its researchers have achieved a breakthrough when it comes to our understanding of the way charged ion particles behave \u2014 a discovery that could be the key to figuring out the logistics for the long-anticipated energy storage capabilities of supercapacitors.<\/p>\n<p>Supercapacitors have long been proposed as a means of charging electronics lightning-fast, but until now, figuring out how to increase the energy density to match or exceed those of lithium-ion batteries has, <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/supercapacitor-density-breakthrough\/\" class=\"\">for the most part<\/a>, eluded scientists. Compared to conventional batteries, which can store as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azonano.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=6519\" class=\"\">ten times more energy<\/a> than today\u2019s supercapacitors, this technology has remained in the realm of the possible but not yet practical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new discovery could pave the way for supercapacitors that can charge phones and laptops in 60 seconds and electric cars in a mere ten minutes. In a press release, the University of Colorado at Boulder announced that its researchers have achieved a breakthrough when it comes to our understanding of the way charged ion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,48,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190451","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}