{"id":4502,"date":"2014-08-06T12:32:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2014-08-06T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:32:52","slug":"4502","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/08\/06\/4502\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking supercapacitors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publicdomainpictures.net\/pictures\/10000\/nahled\/33-1213042277oc9i.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"> scientists from South Korea have converted cigarette butts into a high-performing material that could be used to coat the electrodes of supercapacitors [1].\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The material is produces via the heat treatment of used cigarette butts in a nitrogen rich environment.<\/p>\n<p>The article states that the processed cigarette filter material stored a higher amount of electrical energy than commercially available carbon.  Also the material stored more energy than the more experimental materials graphene and carbon nanotubes.<\/p>\n<p>If the process can be made economically viable then this process could be used to ecologically recycle cigarette butts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference <\/strong><br \/>\n[1] Minzae Lee, Gil-Pyo Kim, Hyeon Don Song, Soomin Park and Jongheop Yi, Preparation of energy storage material derived from a used cigarette filter for a supercapacitor electrode,  2014 <em>Nanotechnology<\/em> <strong>25<\/strong> 345601.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/news\/14\/aug\/page_63697.html\" title=\"iop news\" target=\"_blank\">Cigarette butts offer energy storage solution<\/a>  IOP News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scientists from South Korea have converted cigarette butts into a high-performing material that could be used to coat the electrodes of supercapacitors [1]. The material is produces via the heat treatment of used cigarette butts in a nitrogen rich environment. The article states that the processed cigarette filter material stored a higher amount of electrical &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/08\/06\/4502\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smoking supercapacitors!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}