Porous carbon from seaweed could boost Li-ion batteries and fuel cells, according to researcher Dr Dongjiang Yang. “We wanted to produce carbon-based materials via a really ‘green’ pathway,” he said. “Given the renewability of seaweed, we chose seaweed extract as a precursor and template to synthesise hierarchical porous carbon materials.” While Yang was at Griffith …
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