From whiskey waste to powerful energy storage devices
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Rebecca Trager2026-03-25T15:05:00
Researchers at ACS conference unveil how they repurposed a bourbon byproduct into green, high-performance supercapacitors
A team at the University of Kentucky has converted the leftover waste from the bourbon distillation process into electrodes for supercapacitors that could store more energy than similarly sized commercial devices. The work, presented at the American Chemical Society’s meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on 24 March, is not yet published and is under review at a journal.