Reading Flexible Supercapacitor Datasheets (and why it matters)
Datasheets are instruction manuals provided by manufacturers for electronic components to explain what their product does and how to use it correctly. For the CBC, like other supercapacitors, the pertinent information is voltage rating, capacitance rating, equivalent series resistance (ESR), leakage current, energy storage capacity, peak power capability, and cycle life.
Supercharging Our Renewable Future
It has become clear that there is a limitless source of renewable energy, as long as the sun is around. Capacitech has set its sights on providing flexible technology to store this power for when we need and want it the most. Building robust energy harvesting into the our infrastructure is surely needed in the future we strive towards. How can ultracapacitors that take the form of thin cables create solutions for the sustainable energy world as we continually evolve?
Unreal Touch
Explore the possibilities that technology enables in the world of virtual reality of our socially distant future. Flexible lightweight energy harvesting could boost battery life for wearables to truly be utilized 24/7. We all now carry a five inch computer in our pocket.. so it can not be too to much to want virtual reality through a pair of glasses that be charged with wire-shaped supercapacitors and not to have worry about if it is charged or replacing its batteries.
Energy Efficient Exoskeletons
Exoskeleton use cases for innovative technology is on the rise, with benefits seen in the workplace and rehabilitation therapy. These devices may be able to lend a helping hand to extreme and exhausting tasks to improve strength, endurance, and safety. Here, we explore some of the limitations to the impact exoskeletons have due to battery life and power management obstacles. Providing a flexible solution to store and discharge energy would allow battery life to be extended, enabling additional advantages for exoskeleton apparatuses.
Supercapacitors for Workplace Wearables
Workplace wearables are gaining in popularity as a productivity tool. Augmented reality, virtual reality, and smart glasses are becoming tools in complicated manufacturing processes. One bottleneck to the productivity? The battery life of these new tools. This article discusses how flexible supercapacitors can be paired with energy harvesting technologies to extend the life of these workplace wearables.
Forever Wearables
Wearable technology has been growing rapidly in the last decade and the number of wearable devices is projected to be 1.1 billion in 2022. It helps if the wearable tech sips power so slowly that a battery will last for months or years, but needing to replace a battery at all can be quite a hurdle when the time comes. Pending battery replacement is a common reason for wearable to end up in the back of the drawer. This article explores how energy harvesting technology and flexible supercapacitors can help.
Materialism Podcast: Reshaping Energy Storage
Taylor and Jared give a brief overview of current energy storage devices and the materials that makes them work. Then they dive into an interview with Joe Sleepy CEO of Capacitech to discuss what his company is doing to revolutionize supercapacitors and their form factor.
Supercapacitor: Myths vs Reality
Sometimes understanding technology, especially energy storage and power electronics, can feel like trying to learn black magic. Here, we dispel some common myths and misconceptions that surround the role of supercapacitors to provide a better understanding of the technology and products we can provide to you.
Flexible Electronics Let Form Follow Function
Consider what can be accomplished with flexible supercapacitors that can be liberated from the circuit board. What would that mean for your design? In using a supercapacitors that takes less surface area on circuit boards, or offsetting supercapacitors from the circuit board to the infrastructure of the system, design engineers can make their products smaller, offer new features, and increase performance to help set themselves apart from the competition. The CBC is optimized to use less surface area on printed circuit boards than other supercapacitors. It can also be used off the circuit board entirely and inside another piece of infrastructure, such as a wiring harness or between cracks of foam in a protective helmet, among other places.
Batteries vs. Supercapacitors? The Answer is Both.
Batteries have a slower charge and discharge relative to supercapacitors and supercapacitors cannot discharge for nearly as long as batteries. One of the challenges that designers face is finding the physical space to use both batteries and supercapacitors in their product or system. This challenge ends up forcing tough engineering and design tradeoffs. We explore how to use Capacitech’s Cable-Based Capacitor to overcome these challenges so designers can use both energy-rich batteries and power-rich supercapacitors.
Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Management
Capacitech’s innovation opens options for where energy storage can be installed, helping designers create products that meet their customers’ needs. Pairing supercapacitors with energy harvesting devices, which can be controlled by a power management integrated circuit could be the match made in heaven for engineers building systems to better our evolving lives.
Internet of Life
Leveraging today’s most innovative technologies to enable Internet of Life devices, designed for wearables. We finally have all the parts to create the “Internet of Life” and rescue all creates large and small. This article covers flexible solar cells, flexible supercapacitors, and LoRa to create the 21st century cowbell.
Shaping the Future & Leaving Traditional Supercapacitors Behind
The value added by supercapacitors is known and well documented, but where will they go? Finding the physical space to add supercapacitors is a challenge to be overcome with form factor innovations. With the CBC, designers can build a discrete and distributed network of supercapacitors to help miniaturize electronics and complement batteries.
Flexible Supercapacitors for Energy Harvesting Technologies in IoT
Energy harvesting technologies are gaining popularity in Internet of Things applications, although they have their challenges. How can these challenges be addressed and what role will flexible supercapacitors play in addressing them?
Sustaining Smart Cities
Are there unintended consequences of Smart City solutions?
The Smart City and IoT technologies above are used to collect data that is leveraged to improve the quality of life for residents and citizens. While true, these technologies are real tangible products that must be deployed in quantities of hundreds, if not thousands, inside the city and seen by the population.
