Understanding the electric double-layer structure, capacitance, and charging dynamics

J Wu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Significant progress has been made in recent years in theoretical modeling of the electric
double layer (EDL), a key concept in electrochemistry important for energy storage …

[HTML][HTML] A review of carbon materials for supercapacitors

Z Zhai, L Zhang, T Du, B Ren, Y Xu, S Wang, J Miao… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of supercapacitors in the energy storage industry is gaining importance due to their
high power density and long life cycle. In recent years, supercapacitors have made …

Microscopic simulations of electrochemical double-layer capacitors

G Jeanmairet, B Rotenberg, M Salanne - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) are devices allowing the storage or
production of electricity. They function through the adsorption of ions from an electrolyte on …

Theory and simulations of ionic liquids in nanoconfinement

S Kondrat, G Feng, F Bresme, M Urbakh… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have exciting properties such as nonvolatility, large
electrochemical windows, and remarkable variety, drawing much interest in energy storage …

Nanoporous carbon for electrochemical capacitive energy storage

H Shao, YC Wu, Z Lin, PL Taberna… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The urgent need for efficient energy storage devices has stimulated a great deal of research
on electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLCs). This review aims at summarizing the …

Microstructural and dynamical heterogeneities in ionic liquids

YL Wang, B Li, S Sarman, F Mocci, ZY Lu… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a special category of molten salts solely composed of ions with varied
molecular symmetry and charge delocalization. The versatility in combining varied cation …

Latest advances in supercapacitors: from new electrode materials to novel device designs

F Wang, X Wu, X Yuan, Z Liu, Y Zhang, L Fu… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Notably, many significant breakthroughs for a new generation of supercapacitors have been
reported in recent years, related to theoretical understanding, material synthesis and device …

Efficient storage mechanisms for building better supercapacitors

M Salanne, B Rotenberg, K Naoi, K Kaneko… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
Supercapacitors are electrochemical energy storage devices that operate on the simple
mechanism of adsorption of ions from an electrolyte on a high-surface-area electrode. Over …

Nanoconfined ionic liquids

S Zhang, J Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Deng - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) have been widely investigated as novel solvents, electrolytes, and soft
functional materials. Nevertheless, the widespread applications of ILs in most cases have …

New perspectives on the charging mechanisms of supercapacitors

AC Forse, C Merlet, JM Griffin… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Supercapacitors (or electric double-layer capacitors) are high-power energy storage devices
that store charge at the interface between porous carbon electrodes and an electrolyte …