Electric Cars with Balls

Essentially the research team have found a way of making 3D Buckyballs from the “D graphine material. The graphine balls can be made more easily and far less expensively than graphene sheets. It can relatively easily be formed into various shaped more easily than trying to deal with graphine sheets.

Above one of the tiny graphine 3D Buckyballs which we hope can be a building block for a range of exciting new materials but especially the development of Supercapacitors.

Supercapacitors, when realised, will fundamentally change the concept of the electric car, They will allow long journeys to be made before re-charging, and recharging with take minutes instead of hours. Also, very importantly, supercapacitors will have a live as long or longer than the cars in which they are fitted, they are not prone to overheating and going on fire, and they will also come in at less that half the cost of current lithium-ion batteries.

This age might yet be termed the Graphene age, Good luck guys with the development work.

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