Self-Assembling Energy Storage
Alternative energy raises hopes of combating climate change, but making efficient, inexpensive means of storing green energy hasn’t proven easy. This video, which riffs on Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey, shows how self-assembling nanostructures might lead to the next generation of fuel tanks.
Video: Christopher E. Wilmer/Omar K. Farha/Patrick E. Fuller/Northwestern University
via The 16 Best Science Visualizations of 2011 | Wired Science | Wired.com.
A short, fun video from the Northwestern University on some of the applications of nano-technology research being done today. In essence, the video talks about why liquid fuel has a higher density than gaseous fuels, and how self-assembled materials can be formed to make energy storage even higher density than the traditional liquid “gas tank”.
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