Graphene offers enormous promise for energy storage, which is a critical need for making renewable energy more viable.

Graphene has two potential applications in energy storage:

  • As a supercapacitor,W storing energy directly[1]
  • Improving the capacity of existing battery technologies.[2]

These are relatively recent developments, and time to commercialization is uncertain.

Notes and references[edit | edit source]

  1. Graphene supercapacitors are 20 times as powerful, can be made with a DVD burner, March 19, 2012, ExtremeTech.
  2. Flexible graphene-based lithium ion batteries with ultrafast charge and discharge rates (scientific paper), October 8, 2012, PNAS.
    CalBattery working on 300-mile li-ion batteries at greatly reduced cost (li-ion battery with a silicon-graphene anode, for electric cars), Oct 31st 2012, AutoblogGreen.
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