Electrochemical Capacitors with High Output Voltages that Mimic Electric Eels

Learning from nature's best

(2015) Julie Gould   NATURE

Synthetic coatings: Super surfaces

(2015) Neil Savage   NATURE

Laminated Ultrathin Chemical Vapor Deposition Graphene Films Based Stretchable and Transparent High-Rate Supercapacitor

(2014) Ping Xu et al.   ACS Nano

Novel Graphene/Carbon Nanotube Composite Fibers for Efficient Wire-Shaped Miniature Energy Devices

(2014) Hao Sun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High-Performance All-Carbon Yarn Micro-Supercapacitor for an Integrated Energy System

(2014) Qinghai Meng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Controlled Functionalization of Carbonaceous Fibers for Asymmetric Solid-State Micro-Supercapacitors with High Volumetric Energy Density

(2014) Dingshan Yu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Scalable synthesis of hierarchically structured carbon nanotube–graphene fibres for capacitive energy storage

(2014) Dingshan Yu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

The shocking predatory strike of the electric eel

(2014) Kenneth Catania   SCIENCE

Genomic basis for the convergent evolution of electric organs

(2014) J. R. Gallant et al.   SCIENCE

Coaxial wet-spun yarn supercapacitors for high-energy density and safe wearable electronics

(2014) Liang Kou et al.   Nature Communications

Graphene fiber-based asymmetric micro-supercapacitors

(2014) Bingna Zheng et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

High-Performance Two-Ply Yarn Supercapacitors Based on Carbon Nanotubes and Polyaniline Nanowire Arrays

(2013) Kai Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Highly Stretchable, Fiber-Shaped Supercapacitor

(2013) Zhibin Yang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Digital cameras with designs inspired by the arthropod eye

(2013) Young Min Song et al.   NATURE

Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot

(2013) K. Y. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Hard-tip, soft-spring lithography

(2011) Wooyoung Shim et al.   NATURE

Ultrathin, transparent, and flexible graphene films for supercapacitor application

(2010) Aiping Yu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Inkjet printing of single-walled carbon nanotube/RuO2 nanowire supercapacitors on cloth fabrics and flexible substrates

(2010) Pochiang Chen et al.   Nano Research

Directional water collection on wetted spider silk

(2010) Yongmei Zheng et al.   NATURE

Designing artificial cells to harness the biological ion concentration gradient

(2008) Jian Xu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Composite Carbon Nanotube/Silica Fibers with Improved Mechanical Strengths and Electrical Conductivities

(2008) Huisheng Peng et al.   Small