Trees go high-tech. Supercapacitors

[TreeTops]

OSU chemists have found that cellulose – the most abundant organic polymer on Earth and a key component of trees – can be heated in a furnace in the presence of ammonia, and turned into the building blocks for supercapacitors.

These supercapacitors are extraordinary, high-power energy devices with a wide range of industrial applications, in everything from electronics to automobiles and aviation.

They have found a way to cheaply make nanoporous carbon membranes that are extraordinarily thin – a single gram of them can have a surface area of nearly 2,000 square meters. That’s part of what makes them useful in supercapacitors.

Source: http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/apr/trees-go-high-tech-process-turns-cellu...torage-devices

[yoda313]

What's the life span of these things?

If its bioorganic do they have a lifespan?

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[TreeTops]

Since they are made from carbon it should have a long life, but who knows for sure. Other ingredients in those capacitors may have a effect on longevity.

Remember diamonds are carbon and diamonds are forever.