Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrids In article number 2100076, Hongjun Park, Raj Kumar Bera, and Ryong Ryoo fabricate a high-performance battery-supercapacitor hybrid electrode by embedding iodine in microporous 3D graphene-like carbon. The electrically conductive framework of carbon serves as path for fast charge transfer. device exhibits high energy power densities, which is highly desirable high-...

This paper reports the electrochemical behaviour of supercapacitor carbon electrodes operating in different aqueous solutions modified by various redox-active species (hydroxybenzenes, bromine derivatives and iodide). Three dihydroxybenzenes with varying stereochemistry, i.e., -OH substitution, have been considered as electrolyte additives (0.38 mol L(-1)) in acidic, alkaline and neutral soluti...

Mesoporous carbons prepared by an inverse replica technique have been used as electrodes for electrochemical capacitors. Such well sized carbons were prepared from mesostructured SBA-16 silica materials that served as templates whereas polyfurfuryl alcohol was the carbon precursor. Two highly mesoporous carbons characterized by 3 and 8 nm average pore diameter were tested in various electrolyti...

This paper is concerned with the synthesis of RC electrical circuits from physics-based supercapacitor models describing conservation and diffusion relationships. The proposed synthesis procedure uses model discretisation, linearisation, balanced model order reduction and passive network synthesis to form the circuits. Circuits with different topologies are synthesized from several physical mod...

The operating temperatures of current electrochemical energy storage devices are limited due to electrolyte degradation and separator instability at higher temperatures. Here we demonstrate that a tailored mixture of materials can facilitate operation of supercapacitors at record temperatures, as high as 200°C. Composite electrolyte/separator structures made from naturally occurring clay and ro...

Rolls of supercapacitor electrodes have successfully been produced on a pilot paper machine with novel material concept.

This paper reports the design of a photovoltaic energy harvesting device used as telemetry node in wireless sensor networks. The device draws power from the small solar cell, stores it into the primary energy buffer and backup supercapacitor, collects measured data from various sensors and transmits them over low power radio link at 868 MHz. Its design ensures reliable cold booting under very p...

Flexible energy storage devices are critical components for emerging flexible electronics. Electrode design is key in the development of all-solid-state supercapacitors with superior electrochemical performances and mechanical durability. Herein, we propose a bamboo-like graphitic carbon nanofiber with a well-balanced macro-, meso-, and microporosity, enabling excellent mechanical flexibility, ...

In this letter, we report a facile approach to improve the capacitor properties of nickel hydroxide (Ni(OH)2) by simply coating gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) on the surface of Ni(OH)2. Au NP-deposited Ni(OH)2 (Au/Ni(OH)2) has been prepared by application of a conventional colloidal coating of Au NPs on the surface of 3D-Ni(OH)2 synthesized via a hydrothermal method. Compared with pristine Ni(OH)2...

Recent advancements in nanotechnology have proposed the Carbon nanotubes as electrode material for the Supercapacitor applications due to their unique properties. Synthesis of Carbon nanotube in Catalytic Chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) is the easiest and economic way of production in a larger scale. The synthesized MWCNTs were characterized by X – ray diffraction (XRD). The morphological char...