Work at Waterloo Engineering to make better supercapacitors is paving the way for the quick-charging, energy-storage devices to replace batteries for a growing range of uses.
Michael Pope, a chemical engineering professor who led the research, said supercapacitors with more storage capacity could eventually power everything from consumer electronics to high-powered lasers.
“If they’re marketed in the correct ways for the right applications, we’ll start seeing more and more of them in our everyday lives,” he said.
Pope and his collaborators developed a novel way to roughly double the amount of electrical energy that can be stored by supercapacitors, which bring benefits including better safety and reliability, plus much faster charging.
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