{"id":87322,"date":"2019-02-02T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/an-arkansas-teen-helped-turn-tea-leaves-and-molasses-into-a-supercapacitor"},"modified":"2019-02-02T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T15:25:44","slug":"an-arkansas-teen-helped-turn-tea-leaves-and-molasses-into-a-supercapacitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/an-arkansas-teen-helped-turn-tea-leaves-and-molasses-into-a-supercapacitor","title":{"rendered":"An Arkansas Teen Helped Turn Tea Leaves and Molasses Into a Supercapacitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the search for people working on cheaper supercapacitors, she found herself in the lab of Noureen Siraj, Ph.D.<\/a>, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. One of Siraj\u2019s students, Samantha Macchi<\/a>, had already been working on such a project for about a year and a half, figuring out how to make supercapacitor electrodes from common materials like used tea leaves, molasses, and a basic kitchen microwave oven \u2014 humble beginnings for a high-tech device. Siraj and Macchi brought Bollimpalli onto the project to learn about the work, which she later presented at ISEF. Meanwhile, Macchi and Siraj published the resulting research<\/a> in January in the journal Chemistry Select<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bollimpalli was initially assigned to a different project in the lab, but when she found out about the work on supercapacitors, she asked to switch tasks. Siraj, who is used to having high school students learn about her team\u2019s work, quickly obliged.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe quickly learned all the protocols, and she actually was able to explain. She brought an understanding that is missing in a lot of the high school students,\u201d Siraj tells Inverse<\/em>. \u201cShe really is good at absorbing the information.\u201d They worked together tirelessly to help Bollimpalli nail the presentation she would later give at ISEF.<\/p>\n

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