Drexel University scholars, alongside peers from Ireland-based Trinity College, just developed a new type of energy-storing ink that is, per the researchers, “an order of magnitude” more efficient at conducting energy than currently existing inks.

According to a post on Drexel’s blog, conductive inks — currently used to manufacture circuitboards or car antennas — are not new. The novelty here is the new product’s efficiency and practicality.

The ink is made out of a kind of MXene (pronounced like Rep. Maxine Waters’ first name), a family of carbon-based, two-dimensional layered materials, first engineered at Drexel in 2011.

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