The power brick that actually is a brick!

Power bricks are usually thought of as the transformers that run laptops and other electronic devices. But a research team at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri has just published details of a power brick that actually is a brick. A red house brick to be precise.They've found a way to chemically change the internal composition to enable it to store electrical energy. The average house contains about ten thousand bricks, so this may be yet another game changer.

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Research Links
Washington University links
https://source.wustl.edu/2020/08/storing-energy-in-red-bricks/
https://chemistry.wustl.edu/news/turning-rust-supercapacitors?_ga=2.184570410.221854449.1601996734-1766548352.1601996734
https://skandalaris.wustl.edu/sc-programs/leap/

Nature Publications Article
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17708-1#Fig4

Supercapacitors
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-supercapacitors-work.html
https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Supercapacitor










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