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• Behind many of these devices is a type of energy storage device, the supercapacitor.
• My team of engineers is working on making these supercapacitors even better at storing energy by studying how they store energy at the nanoscale.
• They charge faster than batteries, often in a few seconds to a minute, but generally store less energy.
• This research could one day improve the energy storage capabilities of supercapacitors.

All about the pores

• Understanding the flow of ions can help researchers control the rate at which a supercapacitor charges and releases energy.
• But researchers still don’t know exactly how ions flow into and out of porous materials.
• When the surface of the pore is charged, ions flow from the reservoir into the pore or vice versa.
• Now, imagine a pore divides into two different branched pores.

Modifying a law of physics

• Engineers generally use a set of physics laws called “Kirchoff’s laws” to determine the distribution of electrical current across a junction.
• The second law states that voltage, the pressure pushing electrons through the current, can’t abruptly change across a junction.
• We used the modified Kirchoff’s law to simulate and predict how ions flow through a large network of nanopores.

The road ahead

• NEW YORK, May 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Getty Images Holdings, Inc. “Getty Images” or the “Company”) (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024.
• “We were pleased to deliver healthy performance across most of our key business metrics, including our sixth consecutive quarter of robust growth in Active Annual Subscribers, all while navigating through what we expected to be the most challenging quarter of 2024,” said Craig Peters, Chief Executive Officer for Getty Images.
• We are confident in our ability to return to topline growth in 2024 as our headwinds turn to tailwinds.”
  First Quarter 2024 Financial Summary:
  Revenue for the period was $222.3 million, a decrease of 5.7% year-over-year on both a reported and currency neutral basis.
• Ending cash balance on March 31, 2024 was $134.2 million, down $2.4 million from the ending balance on December 31, 2023 and up $17.4 million from March 31, 2023.

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• LONDON, April 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, and Motorsport Images , a specialist motorsport archive, today announced that Getty Images has acquired Motorsport Images, including its operative arm LAT Images and its Sutton, Schlegelmilch, Colombo and Dukes Video archives.
• The addition of Motorsport Images’ photographic talent and premium motorsport archive complements Getty Images’ award-winning motorsports photographers, its expert operations team and rich sports archive, augmenting Getty Images’ customer offering in the motorsport space.
• “We are thrilled to welcome Motorsport Images to Getty Images,” said Craig Peters, Chief Executive Officer, Getty Images.
• Their impressive archive of iconic imagery and video will expand upon our premium motorsport offering to Getty Images’ global customer base.”
  “I’m so proud of what the Motorsport Images team has built over our history and of the high-quality service and outstanding visuals we provide our customers,” said Steven Tee, Managing Director, Motorsport Images.