Scientists in Canada have created a hybrid sodium ion capacitor (NIC) from peanut shells in a pioneering study bridging the gap between conventional ion batteries and supercapacitors.
Interested to know more?
Take a look at the full Chemistry World article by Dannielle Whittaker online now.
For further details there’s also the original research paper:
Peanut shell hybrid sodium ion capacitor with extreme energy–power rivals lithium ion capacitors
Jia Ding, Huanlei Wang, Zhi Li, Kai Cui, Dimitre Karpuzov, Xuehai Tan, Alireza Kohandehghan and David Mitlin
Energy Environ. Sci., 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C4EE02986K
