Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Energy storing bricks for stationary PEDOT supercapacitors

  • Hongmin Wang,
  • Yifan Diao,
  • Yang Lu,
  • Haoru Yang,
  • Qingjun Zhou,
  • Kenneth Chrulski,
  • Julio M. D’Arcy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17708-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Fired brick is a universal building material, produced by thousand-year-old technology, which throughout history has seldom served any other purpose. Here, the authors show that bricks can store energy after chemical treatment to convert their iron oxide content into conducting polymer nanofibers.