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Paper powers battery breakthrough

Nature Nanotechnology volume 2, pages 598–599 (2007)Cite this article

Researchers have combined carbon nanotubes and nanoporous cellulose to make lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors that are both lighter and more flexible than existing devices.

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Figure 1: Schematic of different battery configurations.

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  1. Bruno scrosati is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, Italy. bruno.scrosati@uniroma1.it,

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