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Self-Healing 'Concrete Batteries' Now 10 Times Better — They Could One Day Power Cities, Scientists Say

MIT researchers achieved a tenfold increase in energy storage for electron-conducting carbon concrete, enabling buildings and infrastructure to store over 10 kWh in just 5 cubic meters.

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Called ec³, the material is made by combining cement and water with a liquid electrolyte and carbon powder — both readily available.

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Self-healing 'concrete batteries' now 10 times better — they could one day power cities, scientists say

Called ec³, the material is made by combining cement and water with a liquid electrolyte and carbon powder — both readily available.

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Cement Supercapacitors Could Turn the Concrete Around Us into Massive Energy Storage Systems

Every square foot of it could, with the addition of some extra materials, power the world that it has grown to cover.

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Mit Develops a “Concrete Battery” that Can Feed a House for a Day with only 0.3 Square Meters of Space

MIT improves the performance of electron-conducting carbon concrete technology to supply a home for a day. Walls are the key to more energy.

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Concrete Battery: Mit Researchers Have Once Again Improved the Revolutionary Concept

In 2023 MIT researchers had presented their concept of a concrete battery, which theoretically allows energy to be stored directly in house walls. An optimized version of the revolutionary storage concept should now be ten times as efficient. read more on t3n.de

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