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Building a Better Battery - With Plastic

Brown University engineers have created a new battery that uses plastic, not metal, to conduct electrical current. The hybrid device marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery. A description of the prototype is published in Advanced Materials.

Tayhas Palmore, associate professor of engineering, left, and Hyun-Kon Song, a former postdoctoral research associate, figured out how to combine the advantages of batteries and capacitors in a plastic hybrid device.

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