Purdue team uses pollen grains as basis for carbon architectures for Li-ion anodes

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By mmillikinFeb 8, 2016, 5:09 am137 ptsTrending
A team at Purdue University has used pollens as the basis for carbon architectures for anodes in energy storage devices. As reported in an open-access paper in Nature’s Scientific Reports, Jialiang Tang and Vilas Pol converted bee pollen and cattail pollen grains into carbon microstructures through a facile,…

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