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Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices – The Conversation US
Bricks turn out to be useful for storing electricity thanks to their porousness and red pigment.
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The big idea
In my synthetic chemistry lab, we have worked out how to convert the red pigment in common bricks into a plastic that conducts electricity, and this process enabled us to turn bricks into electricity storage devices. These brick supercapacitors could be connected to solar panels to store rechargeable energy. Supercapacitors store electric charge, in contrast to batteries, which store chemical energy.
Bricks porou…
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