We report the synthesis of hybrid supercapacitor electrodes by a novel reduction of GO with simultaneous incorporation of polyoxometalate. These hybrids show a 30% increase in specific capacitance and excellent stability after 10,000 cycles.

ZnCo2O4 nanoflakes, as electrodes for supercapacitors, are grown on a cellular nickel foam using a cost-effective hydrothermal procedure. The mesoporous ZnCo2O4 nanoflakes have large electroactive surface areas with strong adhesion to the Ni foam, allowing fast ion and electron transport. The nanoarchitecture electrodes deliver an excellent specific capacitance of 1220 F g(-1) at a current dens...

Monodispersed dumbbell-like Au-Fe3O4 nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized and studied for use in supercapacitors. These dumbbell NPs show Au/Fe3O4-size dependent capacitive behaviors and the 7-14 nm Au-Fe3O4 NPs have the best specific capacitance of 464 F g(-1) at 1 A g(-1) and capacity retention of 86.4% after 1000 cycles, much larger than pure Fe3O4 NPs (160 F g(-1) and 72.8% retention). This...

Hierarchical mesoporous yolk-shell structured carbon nanospheres (YSCNs) with an ordered mesoporous carbon core and a microporous carbon shell show excellent electrochemical performance with a maximal specific capacitance of 159 F g(-1).

The formation and disappearance of ice changes will cause the change of its capacitance, we can use this features of air, ice and water has different capacitance under different temperature to measure the ice thickness. The capacitance sensor is designed based on this theory that can measure the ice thickness in the harsh environment more effective. Based on the finite element simulation softwa...

As a promising anode material in supercapacitors, vanadium nitride has been widely concerned due to its ultra-high theoretical specific capacitance. However, routine test capacitance value is still far from the and energy storage mechanism controversial. In order solve these two key problems, here we prepare interplanar spacing expanded materials with different impurity atoms intercalation anio...

Reduction of VO2 resistance by nearly 3 orders of magnitude through H2 treatment was reported for supercapacitor application. A specific discharge capacitance of 300 F g(-1) and a specific energy density of 17 W h kg(-1) at a rate of 1 A g(-1) are demonstrated with long-term cycling stability, which is 4 times higher than untreated samples.

Composite electrodes of polyaniline/MnO2-Multi walled carbon nanotube (PANI/MnO2-MWCNT), MnO2-MWCNT nanocomposites and MWCNT was produced by the in situ direct coating approach. The supercapacitor performance of the nanocomposites was studied by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The electrochemical properties of electrodes were also investig...

The well-known electro-mechanical analogy that equates current, voltage, resistance, inductance and capacitance to force, velocity, damping, spring constant and mass has a shortcoming in that mass can only be used to simulate a capacitor which has one terminal connected to ground. A new model that was previously proposed by the authors that combines a mass with a pulley (MP) is shown to simulat...