Multidimensional performance optimization of conducting polymer-based supercapacitor electrodes
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Sustainable Energy and Fuels
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2398-4902
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Royal Society of Chemistry
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Fong, K., Wang, T., & Smoukov, S. (2017). Multidimensional performance optimization of conducting polymer-based supercapacitor electrodes. Sustainable Energy and Fuels https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SE00339K
Abstract
Supercapacitors based on conducting polymers promise to bridge the gap between the high power densities of carbon-based double-layer capacitors and the high energy densities of batteries. While much work has focused on improving the specific capacitance of these materials, emerging applications also demand competitive performance with regards to a variety of other criteria, including long-term cycling stability, mechanical robustness, and scalability of fabrication. There is no consolidated summary in the literature, however, of the specific strategies used to target these individual metrics as well as the tradeoffs that exist between them. Herein, we review the most recent progress in engineering high performance conducting polymer-based supercapacitor electrodes, emphasizing the successful techniques for polymer synthesis, nanostructuring, and compositing with carbon or metal oxides which have been used to optimize each of the most important supercapacitor performance metrics.
Sponsorship
This work was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) grant to S.K.S., EMATTER (# 280078). K.D.F. acknowledges support from the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. T.W. thanks the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for funding and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications (grant number: EP/L015889/1) for support.
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European Research Council (280078)
EPSRC (1566990)
EPSRC (EP/L015889/1)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SE00339K
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267877
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