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Charging graphene for energy

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Energy storage is a grand challenge for future energy infrastructure, transportation and consumer electronics. Jun Liu discusses how graphene may — or may not — be used to improve various electrochemical energy storage devices.

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Figure 1: A schematic representation of a hybrid battery–capacitor device, in which an intercalation material would be used as the cathode (left) and graphene as the anode material (right).

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Liu, J. Charging graphene for energy. Nature Nanotech 9, 739–741 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.233

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