Carbon Nanotubes Turn Office Paper into Batteries

Plain white office paper could be the basis for efficient batteries. Scientists have converted sheets of them into efficient electrical storage devices using ink loaded with carbon nanotubes. This new spin on an ancient invention is the latest in a line of research striving to incorporate paper into batteries to reduce their weight, one of battery technology's major shortcomings.

To trim weight, researchers have tried several approaches, including the use of thin films of materials laid down as inks. The appeal of paper for centuries—its porous microscopic structure, which makes it ideal for holding onto inks—now intrigues researchers for modern applications, not to mention that paper is also a flexible, lightweight, affordable, well-established technology that is used everywhere and could be made from renewable sources.

To devise the novel paper batteries, materials scientist Yi Cui of Stanford University and his colleagues coated plain copy paper with black ink made with single-walled carbon nanotubes, which are electrically conductive pipes only billionths of a meter wide. Positive and negative electrodes—cathodes and anodes—were then applied as slurries dried on the nanotube-impregnated paper. (The cathodes were made from lithium manganese oxide nanorods, and the anodes made either from nanopowders of lithium titanium oxide or nanowires with cores of carbon covered with shells of silicon.) Click Here to Read the Full Article

Industrial Clients

Interested in learning success stories LOC Scientific had with past clients? Here's a few:

Saint-Gobain is a producer, processor and distributor of materials (glass, ceramics, plastics, cast iron, etc.). Saint-Gobain transforms raw materials into advanced products for use in our daily lives, and developing new materials.

Solvay is an international Group with headquarters in Brussels, that employs more than 28,000 people worldwide. In 2007, its consolidated sales amounted to EUR 9.6 billion, generated by its three sectors of activity: Chemicals, Plastics and Pharmaceuticals.


Georgia Power is an investor-owned, tax-paying utility that serves 2.25 million customers in all but four of Georgia's 159 counties. The largest of four electric utilities that make up Southern Company, GP, has been providing electricity to Georgia for more than a century at rates well below the national average.

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Additional Products

LOC also provides a variety of useful laboratory safety equipment.

Check out our acid and solvent laboratory storage lab cabinets:

Metal Free acid and solvent lab cabinets are manufactured with no metal products. Our metal free acid and solvent lab cabinets are fabricated in a full line of sizes to fit any application.

Features and Benefits:

• All cabinets are constructed of 1” thick, 9-ply plywood and finished with multiple coats of epoxy paint
• Customize a chemical storage center for your special storage needs.
• All lab cabinets constructed to meet or exceed applicable NFPA and OSHA standards
• Lab cabinets are easily identified by cabinet color and 10” hazard labels

Lab Planner

LOC wants to make designing your lab as easy as possible. That's why our team of professional lab contractors developed our online LabPlanner.

The LabPlanner determines what your specific laboratory needs are. It will guide you in successfully designing and implementing your laboratory.

To begin, please visit our LabPlanner page, where it will ask you to take a quick survey. Once your survey has been submitted, you will receive a custom web page with suggestions for your laboratory.

Also, we understand some of these lab designs need to be kept confidential, and promise we will not be sharing any of your contact information with any third party.

To complete the survey and start planning laboratory furniture for your new lab, please visit our site!

Versa-LAB™ Welded Frame Series

LOC’s Welded Frame Table is 1-1/4”

The available Mobile Instrument Carrier is 1-1/2” welded 16 gauge steel tube, with all joints welded and ground smooth. Primed and finish coated with chemical resistant polyurethane enamel, matte black. Heavy duty 4” swivel locking castors ensure easy movement. Choose the laboratory countertop that fits your application in Trespa, Epoxy, or Plastic Laminate. Standard sizing comes in: 24” or 48” wide and 48”, 54”, 60”, 72” lengths. Custom sizes available.

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Laboratory Design

LOC Scientific has a design team stacked full of professional with several years experience in laboratory design, engineering, installation, and management.

Our expertise allows us to provide complete customer satisfaction. We make it a top priority to ensue nothing will be overlooked, and that your specific needs will be built into the design right from the beginning.

Through our custom tools and programs we have developed, our designers make your concept become a reality.

Our Profile

Loc Scientific, Inc. is based in Atlanta, GA and has been in business since 1986. We have been providing lab owners, directors and facilities managers with laboratory needs.

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