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Dec 3, 2014
The Company's BioSuperCap Technology Has Demonstrated Stability for Over 50,000 Charge-Discharge Cycles -- More Than 10 Times Better Than Ever Reported for Polymer-Hybrid Supercapacitors
BioSolar, (OTCQB: BSRC), producer of innovative bio-based solar energy products and developer of a breakthrough supercapacitor technology, recently announced record performance for its low cost energy storage supercapacitor.
BioSuperCap, a next generation supercapacitor based on inexpensive conducting polymers designed to reduce the cost of storing the energy of the sun, has demonstrated stability for over 50,000 charge-discharge cycles, which is more than 10 times better than ever reported.
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Download free sample pagesAt the Supercapacitors USA Conference 2014 at Santa Clara, California held during the week of November 19, 2014, Dr. David Vonlanthen, a lead inventor of the technology and the company's scientific advisor, gave a presentation describing the company's current development efforts.
"We have shown that conducting polymers can be successfully employed for stable, high-performance supercapacitors," Dr. Vonlanthen said. "We fully demonstrated for the first time that the combination of polymers and redox-electrolytes yield supercapacitors that are inherently stable. The technology shows a stable performance over 50,000 charge-discharge cycles, which is more than 10 times better than ever reported for any previous polymer-hybrid supercapacitor designs. Conducting polymers are very promising materials for low-cost supercapacitors, as they are extremely cheap, easy to process, and highly conductive."
Dr. David Lee, the company's CEO said, "Our eventual objective is to build a new generation of low cost polymer-based supercapacitors employing interpenetrating polymer-networks to give stable polymer-electrodes with very high charge-storage capacity."
Supercapacitors are high power and rapid charge-discharge energy storage devices. By integrating BioSuperCap as the front-end to battery banks, fewer batteries can be used, and daytime solar energy can be quickly and cost-effectively stored for nighttime use at a substantially lower cost. This potentially game-changing technology will allow users of solar energy systems to reduce their dependence or go completely off the electric utility power grid.
BioSolar co-owns the patent-application for this supercapacitor technology with the University of California at Santa Barbara ("UCSB"), and is currently funding a sponsored research program to further its development.