Supercapacitors: Emerging Electrode and Electrolyte Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 176
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrolyte materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Increasing energy demand globally and depletion of traditional sources of energy (coal, fuel etc.) search of an alternate sustainable energy source is primary focus of scientific community. Energy is produced from various sources such as wind, hydro, thermal, nuclear, but this energy need to be stored somewhere so that it can be used as per need. Supercapacitor emerged as an electrochemical power source used in different applications from portable electronics to hybrid vehicles. Research efforts has been put toward the development of the novel electrode and electrolyte materials. Starting from carbon based electrode materials to transition metal oxides, 2D materials and hybrid materials we have come a long way to extend the scope of improvement for charge storage. Main focus is toward improvement of charge storage capacity by tuning the structure, morphology, and surface area and conductivity. Electrolyte is an important part of supercapacitor and affects the device performance. To address the progress in the research and development of supercapacitor electrode/electrolyte materials.
This special issue covers the theoretical and experimental work dealing with novel electrode and electrolyte materials. We invite you to submit the research and review articles on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Carbon based materials;
- Transition metal oxides;
- 2D semiconductor materials;
- Hybrid materials;
- Polymer electrolytes (gel/solid);
- Conducting polymers;
- Methods for performance analysis and characterization;
- Solid-state supercapacitors.
Dr. Anurag Gaur
Dr. Anil Arya
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy storage
- supercapacitor
- electrode materials
- 2D materials
- polymer electrolytes
- hybrid materials
- conducting polymers
- solid-state supercapacitors
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