Graphene oxide supercapacitor on verge of commercialization

[LockH]

Graphene oxide supercapacitor on verge of commercialization:
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/...rcapacitor-on-verge-of-commercialization.html

Starts:

Researchers at Swinburne’s Centre for Micro-Photonics are one step closer to producing commercially viable, chemical-free, long-lasting, safe batteries. Professor Baohua Jia and Dr Han Lin lead a team developing the Bolt Electricity Storage Technology (BEST) battery – a graphene oxide-based supercapacitor offering high performance and low-cost energy storage.

The technology could, according to one investor, make chemical batteries a thing of the past.

Ends:

Making a commercial prototype is the next step.

Kieran Harford, of Kremford Pty Ltd, thinks that step is very close. “We’re pretty sure we can handmake a prototype within eight weeks,” Mr Harford says. “But we need to be able to make it commercially.”

On completion of the project, Kremford will own 40 per cent of Graphene Solutions; FGR will own the other 60 per cent.

“Warwick Grigor of Far East Capital has just raised $3.5 million for FGR, $2 million of which is earmarked for this project,” Mr Harford says. “We’ll be working with Baohua to make the prototype over a two-year period.”

 

[Syonyk]

No energy or power density numbers?

Let me know when they have something released, and I'll bet it's an order of magnitude worse in energy density than modern lithium ion.

I hate these fluff pieces about stuff that doesn't exist yet - and the headline is flat out wrong.

Kieran Harford, of Kremford Pty Ltd, thinks that step is very close. “We’re pretty sure we can handmake a prototype within eight weeks,” Mr Harford says. “But we need to be able to make it commercially.”

So, you can hand-build one in 8 weeks? How's that "on the verge of commercialization"?

 

[LockH]

Hehe... This "fluff piece" from "Researchers at Swinburne’s Centre for Micro-Photonics are one step closer to producing commercially viable, chemical-free, long-lasting, safe batteries. Professor Baohua Jia and Dr Han Lin lead a team developing the Bolt Electricity Storage Technology (BEST) battery."

So. As one of my ancestors used to say (caretaker at a funeral home)... Remains to be seen (re timing of this development).

HOPEFULLY further news about August/September...

 

[amberwolf]

By then they should be able to hand-make the prototypes in only four weeks.

 

[Hillhater]

Many, many claims , but I dont recall seeing any significant advances in commercially available "battery storage " technology since the commercialisation of Lithium technologies back in the 1990's......that is almost 30 years ago !

 

[Chalo]

I gotta say, juice stored in a capacitor is much harder to use than charge in a battery, because it's delivered at a linearly​ descending voltage that varies between its full voltage and zero. It's not impossible to exploit, but the required voltage conversion squanders both efficiency and the capacitor's hypothetical ability to discharge at a high rate.

My point is, a capacitor is going to have to be really, really good before it displaces any EV batteries in practical applications.

 

[neptronix]

Are supercaps more energy dense than lead acid batteries yet? :lol: