Devices for storing energy in the mechanical deformation of nanotube molecules and recovering the energy from mechanically deformed nanotube molecules

摘要

An energy storage device includes at least one nanotube. An energy storage mechanism converts energy external to the device into the appropriate levels of strain on the at least one nanotube to produce stored energy, and an energy recovery mechanism converts the energy released by relaxing the at least one nanotube back to energy external to the device.