About 20 teachers from all over the Greater Los Angeles Area participated in today’s workshop for the Nanoscience Program at UCLA California NanoSystems Institute on “supercapacitors,” a hybrid concept between a battery and a capacitor. These devices can store a lot of charges/energy (like a battery) and deliver it very fast (like a capacitor). This month, the nanoscience training for high school science teachers focused on carbon-based electrodes to store energy electrochemically. As usual, at the end of the workshop, each teacher received materials/supplies to perform the lab activity in their classrooms, giving them the ability to share their new knowledge with their students from underrepresented schools.
