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Melbourne PhD student Han Lin leads revolutionary battery charge

Ben Potter
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Han Lin came to Australia from Fujian province on China's south coast in 2009 to do a PhD in physics at Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology.

Now he's a leader in a global quest to make a commercial "supercapacitor" battery - which Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk has labelled the next breakthrough - from the wonder material graphene.

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Ben Potter writes on energy, climate change and innovation, and has been Washington correspondent, opinion editor and companies editor. Connect with Ben on Twitter. Email Ben at bpotter@afr.com

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