I am loving this news, especially since my less-than-six-months-old laptop battery is acting up.
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While the technology still needs > improving, its full development and large-scale employment would certainly > revolutionize the way we use any electronic devices, from an iPod to an > electric car. > > The electrode was fabricated with a layer-by-layer technique in which a > base material is alternately dipped in solutions containing specially > treated carbon nanotubes to either have a slightly positive or a slightly > negative charge: when layers of the two kinds are put together, the opposite > magnetic forces pull the parts tightly together, self-assembling an > electrode that is porous at the nanometric scale and doesn't seem to > deteriorate at all as the battery is subjected to over a thousand > charge-discharge cycles. > > The electrodes produced by the team were a few microns thick, making the > technology potentially useful for small portable electronics. With time, the > researchers hope to be able to develop much thicker electrodes that could be > used for more power-demanding applications like electric cars. > > The news is an important step building on the findings made by Stanford > researchers regarding silicon nanotube > electrodes<http://www.gizmag.com/silicon-nanotubes/12947/>not too long ago, > and looks particularly promising. However, before we start > daydreaming about a Tesla Roadster that can go up to 2,400 miles between > charges, a couple of problems still need to be tackled. > > The first issue is that, while there isn't a real limit on the potential > thickness of the electrode, the time that it would take to actually build a > powerful electrode from layers only a few nanometers thick would be > substantial, to the point where the process would simply become impractical. > The researchers are making some steps toward solving this issue by advancing > a new manufacturing strategy that would involve spraying the layers with a > conductive solution rather than dipping them, which could speed up the > process by up to 100 times. > > But perhaps the major hurdle to the widespread use of this technology is > the scarce availability of carbon nanotubes. A > number<http://www.cnanotechnology.com/en/cnano.html> of > companies <http://www.nano-lab.com/winner-of-nanotube-production.html>have > been working on this issue for some time, but there is no telling when > truly affordable and high-quality carbon nanotubes might become a reality. > > The MIT <http://web.mit.edu/> team's findings were reported in a > paper<http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v5/n7/abs/nnano.2010.116.html>published > in the journal > *Nature Technology*. The research was funded by Dupont-MIT Alliance, > Office of Naval Research and the MRSEC Program of the National Science > Foundation. > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
