Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Applications
Supercapacitor devices are well-known as their fast charge storage kinetics by the electric double-layer capacitance (EDLC) or EDLC-like mechanisms at the electrode/electrolyte interfaces. So far, research groups worldwide have been mostly worked on the electrodes consist of carbon-based (e.g. porous carbon, graphene, curved graphene nanosheets, graphene nanoribbons, carbide-derived carbon and etc.), two dimensional layered (e.g. Ti3C2Tx MXene) and transition metal oxide/sulfides/phosphates (e.g. MnO2, Co3O4 and etc.) materials. The former stores charge by the adsorption of electrolyte ions onto the surface of the electrode materials providing high power density. The two latter ones store charge by fast redox reactions presenting an intrinsic (such as MnO2) or extrinsic (such as LiCoO2 thin films) pseudocapacitive properties providing high energy density.
More useful information on this subject can be found in informative published papers like:
4- Gogotsi et al. Where Do Batteries End and Supercapacitors Begin? Science, 2014.
5- Brousse et al. To Be or Not To Be Pseudocapacitive? journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2015.