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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Opening the door to to highly efficient energy storage systems
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2016-08-25 19:00:00
	Description:		For the first time, a team of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of California, Santa Cruz have successfully 3D-printed ultralight supercapacitors using an aerogel made out of graphene. Lab engineer Chen Zhu explains that this breakthrough opens the door to new, highly efficient energy storage systems for a range of applications, including smartphones, electric cars and implantable devices to name a few. "If you have iPhone in the future, it can store the energy very quickly and release the energy very fast. So it has very wide applications. That’s why we are working on this because we want to use a new fabrication technique to fabricate the architectural design of the supercapacitor because currently most of the supercapacitor is a very thin film, just a 2D pattern. So, for the 3D, printing, that will improve the performance of the supercapacitor." Narrator: It will also create unique electronics that are currently difficult or even impossible to make using other synthetic methods.
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