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Published online 1 August 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060731-3
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Baked seaweed and chips
Better electronic capacitors could come from an unlikely source.
New materials for advanced electronics are usually expensive, high-tech substances. But a team of researchers in France has shown that energy-storage components called supercapacitors can be made from a remarkably cheap and humble material: baked seaweed.
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