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Bricks are one of the oldest known building materials, dating back thousands of years. But researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found a new use for bricks: as energy storage units.
Researchers have transformed standard bricks into energy-storing devices, The Guardian reports, potentially adding a new function to these omnipresent construction materials. The team created these "power bricks" by
Our work is the first to demonstrate energy storage in bricks, however other researchers are chemically altering bricks for other uses. The red pigment in bricks has been used as a chemical
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By contrast, the low-tech firebrick thermal storage system would cost anywhere from one-tenth to one-fortieth as much as either of those options, Forsberg says. Firebrick itself is just a variant of ordinary bricks, made from
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Imagine plugging into your brick house. Red bricks — some of the world’s cheapest and most familiar building materials — can be converted into energy storage units that can be charged to hold electricity, like a battery, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
The researchers have developed a method to make or modify “smart bricks” that can store energy until required for powering devices. The method converts bricks into a type of energy storage device called a supercapacitor.
Now a team of researchers say a classic construction material—the red fired brick—could be a contender in the quest for energy storage. The common brick is porous like a sponge, and it’s red color comes from pigmentation that is rich in iron oxide.
“The brick itself would be the battery.” The novel device, described in Nature Communications on Tuesday, is a far cry from the megawatt-scale storage projects underway in places like California’s desert and China’s countryside. But D’Arcy said the paper shows, for the first time, that bricks can store electrical energy.
Now, chemists have discovered new potential in these ubiquitous building blocks: Through a series of reactions, scientists have shown that conventional bricks can be transformed into energy storage devices powerful enough to turn on LED lights. The findings were published Tuesday in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
Vibha Kalra, a chemical and biomolecular engineer at Drexel University, likens the concept of the energy-storing bricks to smart fabrics where devices are embedded into wearable materials. “There is merit in integrating energy storage and smart devices into commonly used systems and materials, saving the extra volume or weight,” she says.
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