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Old 06-17-2016, 11:50 AM   #76
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Originally Posted by geekmaster View Post
But the eink is encapsulated in beads, which would need to be melted or dissolved. And some eink technologies claim to use both black and white charged particles, but we already know how to electophoretically separate them if we need to.
From my description, it should be clear that I never tried it myself.

But even if the e-ink has to be processed, it might well be easier than making your on graphene nano platelets.
Aren't those beads wax or clay or some such simple thing?

"Turn your Kindle display into a Super Capacitor"
video to follow, maybe, someday.

Actually, it already is a zillion or so independent super capacitors.
Each pixel (or maybe each bead) is a tiny super capacitor - that is how each pixel (or bead) can hold enough charge to be rotated by an electric field.

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