As far as generation of Renewable Energy (RE) is concerned, India is advancing at a rapid pace. However, as generation of REs is unpredictable, we also need to concentrate more on energy storage.
At the heart of modern energy storage lies the supercapacitor – a device that can rapidly store and release large amounts of energy making them crucial for powering everything from mobile devices and electric vehicles to RE systems.
While faster than batteries, supercapacitors have often lagged behind in their energy holding capacity. Our Indian scientists’ innovative minds are always in action – and their contributions have often accelerated the progress of technologies in different fields. Once again keeping the trait, the scientists from Bengaluru, in collaboration with Aligarh Muslim University, have proved that with their developmental research work in this field.
They have engineered a next-generation energy storage material that dramatically enhances supercapacitor performance. The team led by Dr. Kavita Pandey at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bengaluru – an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, focused on silver niobate (AgNbO3), a lead-free and environmentally friendly material with excellent electrical characteristics.
The exciting potential of lanthanum doping is a strategy for tailoring the properties of silver niobate nanoparticles for high-performance supercapacitors. Their findings enhance the promise of AgNbO3 nanoparticles in electrochemical energy storage and showcase the important role of rare-earth doping in material innovation. Due to the global push for clean and efficient energy storage solutions – advancements like this are significant milestones.
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