New | China invents way to use a bra to charge a smartphone
Scientists develop technology to turn common bra into a wearable power bank to charge up smartphones and other mobile devices -- underwear next
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But a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said they developed in laboratory a new supercapacitor material “more wearable than ever” with similar characteristics.
A capacitor could hold and discharge electricity like a battery. But the movement of electrons was driven by pure physical forces in a capacitor, while a battery relied on chemical reactions.
Traditional capacitors such as those in a radio could store only a tiny amount of energy. With the advances in science in recent years, scientists were able to increase their energy storage significantly with the hope to rival or even replace batteries with the so called supercapacitors.
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The new supercapacitor material developed by the Chinese team was soft and expandable. It could stand a pull to three times its original length, according to their paper published on the academic journal Advanced Materials last week.
