In the sound of rice huller, the rice falls to the jar; and in the booming sound of thunder, the rain drops falldown on the ground. Witha shovel on shoulder, we're farming under the sky.

Rice hull ash hard carbon exceeds both, with a storage capacity of more than 700 mAh—nearly double that of graphite. The nanoporous structure of the isolated hard carbon is thought to contribute ...

Researchers have found that rice hulls, a natural byproduct of the rice milling process, release a special form of carbon when burned. That carbon dramatically increases batteries' energy density ...

and we usually threw it away along with the rice hulls, but times have changed," Isah Hamisu, a rice mill worker in the northern city of Kano, told the BBC. Despite the grains being broken ...

Rather than importing graphite mined from China or Mexico, rice hull ash could provide a higher quality domestic material for making battery electrodes. The process is also more sustainable than ...

A closer inspection of ash from burned rice hulls, the hard outer layer of rice grains, revealed a form of carbon that could nearly double the energy density of typical lithium-ion or sodium-ion ...