Solanas may sound like a futuristic ice cream gift, but really, can a great promise to help power cars, cell phones and laptops. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy have developed new nanoscale materials called Solanas who say do a better electrodes in lithium ion batteries. Made from a combination of carbon, aluminum and silicon, sunny resemble an ice cream cone with a scanning electron microscope. Professor Nikhil Koratkar RPI led a research team found that a lithium ion battery anode sunny fact can be... read full review »