It doesn’t seem so long ago that battery manufacturers were striving for the $100 per KWh battery, yet a recent breakthrough could see $54 per KWh energy storage coming to market soon. Announced by US west coast firm BioSolar, who include Nobel Prize winner Alan Heeger on their science advisory board, the so call “Super Battery” could cause massive disruption in the electric car, smart building and consumer electronics sectors. “Rarely does one technology exhibit such potential across so many energy sectors spanning solar, electric vehicles, and traditional charging applications for personal technology use”, said BioSolar CEO David Lee. BioSolar and the University of California, Santa Barbara, reinforced a previous international patent application by jointly filing applications in the US, Canada and Japan for something called a “multicomponent-approach to enhance stability and capacitance in polymer-hybrid supercapacitors”, or “Super Battery” for short. All the fuss around BioSolar’s energy storage approach comes down to the fact that […]