Aug. 12 (UPI) --Chemists at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method for converting red bricks, the ubiquitous building material, into "smart bricks" that can be charged and store ...

Coating red bricks with conductive polymers turns them into supercapacitors. The resulting treated walls could act as a low-cost version of something like the Powerwall. Red bricks contain conductive ...

This is quite possibly one of the largest game-changing discoveries of the last few decades, where scientists have effectively turned red bricks into supercapacitors. How? By coating the bricks with a ...

These photos and microscope images show the structure of a common fired red brick before and after nanofibrillar coating is added. (Image courtesy of The D’Arcy Laboratory in Washington University in ...

Brick walls might some day power your lights and laptop, thanks to a new technique that converts building blocks into battery-like devices (Nat. Commun. 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17708-1). By ...

It does not need to be new to create an innovation that will revolutionize energy sustainability on the planet. An old, cheap material used to create strong and sturdy houses, the red brick, can now ...