Red bricks -- some of the world's cheapest and most familiar building materials -- can be converted into energy storage units that can be charged to hold electricity, like a battery, according to new ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. This is quite possibly one of the largest game-changing discoveries of the last few decades, where scientists have effectively turned red bricks into ...

Why it matters: Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method to store energy using red bricks, an abundant and affordable building material that has been in use for ...

Coating red bricks with conductive polymers turns them into supercapacitors. The resulting treated walls could act as a low-cost version of something like the Powerwall. Red bricks contain conductive ...