nCarbon, Inc. is commercializing technology developed at the University of Texas at Austin which dramatically increases the electrical energy storage capacity of supercapacitors. The company's technology is based on novel material science that led to the discovery of a new class of carbon. The new material is a three dimensional, porous structure with walls that are a single-atom thick. It has extraordinarily high surface area per unit weight. This revolutionary material, trademarked as nCarbon, is ideal for supercapacitor electrodes and increases the amount of energy that can be stored by three times. nCarbon is currently adapting its technology to Micro-Hybrid systems which are ultracapacitors which provide power for a vehicle for brief periods while it is stopped, thus increasing overall vehicle efficiency.
