{"id":87782,"date":"2019-02-15T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T21:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/3d-printed-graphene-aerogel-offers-highest-ever-capacitance-for-a-supercapacitor"},"modified":"2019-02-15T13:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T21:25:48","slug":"3d-printed-graphene-aerogel-offers-highest-ever-capacitance-for-a-supercapacitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/3d-printed-graphene-aerogel-offers-highest-ever-capacitance-for-a-supercapacitor","title":{"rendered":"3D Printed Graphene Aerogel Offers Highest-Ever Capacitance for a Supercapacitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-graphene-aerogel-offers-highest-ever-capacitance-for-a-supercapacitor2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After what has seemed a bit of a lapse in the timeline of their development, graphene-enabled supercapacitors may be poised to make a significant advance. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) have developed an electrode for supercapacitors made from a graphene-based aerogel. The new supercapacitor component has the highest areal capacitance (electric charge stored per unit of surface area) ever reported for a supercapacitor.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D-printing technique they leveraged to make the graphene electrode may have finally addressed the trade-offs between the gravimetric (weight), areal (surface area), and volumetric (total volume) capacitance of supercapacitor electrodes that were previously thought to be unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>In previous uses of pure graphene aerogel electrodes with high surface area, volumetric capacitance always suffered. This issue has typically been exacerbated with 3D-printed graphene aerogel electrodes; volumetric capacitance was reduced even further because of the periodic large pores between the printed filaments.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/nanoclast\/semiconductors\/materials\/3d-printed-graphene-aerogel-reaches-highest-capacitance-yet-for-a-supercapacitor\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/nanoclast\/semiconductors\/materials...rcapacitor<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After what has seemed a bit of a lapse in the timeline of their development, graphene-enabled supercapacitors may be poised to make a significant advance. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) have developed an electrode for supercapacitors made from a graphene-based aerogel. The new supercapacitor component has the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87782","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}