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Bricks are one of the oldest known building materials, dating back thousands of years.

But researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found a new use for bricks as energy storage units.

A team of engineers and chemists have found a way to transform

an ordinary house brick into a pseudo battery, allowing it to conduct and store electricity.

The bricks are powerful enough to illuminate an LED light bulb and cost only about $3 to make.

I love the idea of adding value to things that are inexpensive, things that are affordable,

things that we kind of take for granted.

Julio Darcy is an assistant professor of chemistry at Washington University and one of the

researchers on the project. The brick battery relies on the reddish pigment known as iron oxide

or rust that gives red bricks

their color. The scientists pumped the bricks with several gases that react with iron oxide

to produce a network of plastic fibers. These microscopic fibers coat the empty spaces inside the bricks

and conduct electricity. What we're trying to do is we're trying to make

specialized plastics that are only used in the nanoscale where we use very little of the plastic,

and we can actually embed that plastic inside construction materials that can store energy.

The study is in the journal Nature Communications. In the future, Darcy says, a brick wall

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