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Mark Hoefer and Prab Bandaru, University of California - San Diego

Caption: Mark Hoefer (left), a UCSD materials science grad student, and mechanical engineering professor Prabhakar Bandaru have discovered that defects in carbon nanotubes could lead to supercapacitors that could possibly be used for portable electronic devices such as cell phones.

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