We throw away billions of plastic bottles each year, but they could be turned into useful electronics components instead Shutterstock/photka
Plastic bottles can be upcycled into parts for supercapacitors, which store energy like batteries but release it much faster.
Plastic pollution is prevalent in our environment, from litter in parks to garbage patches in the oceans. Disposable drink bottles are a significant part of the problem. According to some sources, 38 billion of the bottles are sent to landfill each year in the US alone. Shengnian Wang at Louisiana Tech…
Article amended on 24 September 2023
We clarified the type of plastic used to produce the superconductor components
