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Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices

  • Written by Julio M. D'Arcy, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Washington University in St Louis
imageBricks could do double duty as building materials and supercapacitors.Big_Ryan/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

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In my synthetic chemistry lab, we have worked out how to convert the red pigment in common bricks into a plastic that conducts electricity, and this...

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