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Skeleton Technologies receives US patent for nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material; higher energy and power densities and lower cost

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Skeleton Technologies , an energy-storage start-up located in Tartu, Estonia, was recently awarded a US patent ( #7,803,345 ) on its nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material. The patented material has also shown superior characteristics in molecular sieving, hydrogen storage and in electroactive devices, Skeleton says.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. meters long, weigh 62 kilograms, and store 3 kilowatt-hours. But atop the list are a couple of surprises. Number one?

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