Imagine a ‘Battery’ that Charges 100 Times Faster by Chris Clarke – Apr 16, 20130 This week, another UCLA team reports it may have found a way to address a persistent problem with supercapacitors: limitations on their effective size. Researchers at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have found a way to use niobium oxide as a matrix to allow the fabrication of supercapacitors the size of batteries, but which could conceivably charge and deliver power hundreds of times as quickly as typical batteries can. Batteries and supercapacitors differ in the way they store...

