Performance of a novel membrane surpasses existing rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors, promising a low-cost, environmentally-friendly energy source. Electrical energy storage and its management is becoming an urgent issue due to climate change and energy shortage. Scientists have now developed a membrane that not only promises greater cost-effectiveness in delivering energy, but is also an environmentally-friendly solution.
World’s first energy-storage membrane devised
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