Description
Book SynopsisThis book covers nanostructure materials for application as supercapacitors. It highlights the properties that make them ideal for energy storage applications. It reports approaches on their electronic, electrical, thermal properties to increase their specific surfaces in order to improve their electrical storage capacities. This book consolidates information on synthesis, characterization and application for supercapacitors with detailed characterization, mechanistic approaches and theoretical consideration. The progress in experimental and theoretical studies on various properties of nanomaterials and its polymer and other composites are described in detail.
Table of ContentsPart 1: Fundamentals of Supercapacitors
Chapter 1: Supercapacitors: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors
Chapter 3: Pseudocapacitors
Chapter 4: Hybrid Capacitors
Chapter 5: Characterization Methods for Supercapacitors
Chapter 6: Life Cycle Analysis of Supercapacitors
Part 2: Nanostructured Materials for Supercapacitors
Chapter 7: Activated Carbon
Chapter 8: Carbon Nanotubes
Chapter 9: Graphene
Chapter 10: Transition Metal Oxides
Chapter 11: Chalcogenides and Phosphides
Chapter 12: Conducting Polymers
Part 3: Templated Nanostructured Carbon Materials for Supercapacitors
Chapter 13: Mesoporous Carbon
Chapter 14: Microporous Carbon
Chapter 15: Macroporous Carbon
Chapter 16: Carbon Nanofiber
Chapter 17: Carbon Aerogels
Part 4: Nanostructured Hybrid Materials for Supercapacitors
Chapter 18: Carbon-based Nano Composites
Chapter 19: Metal Oxides based Nano Composites
Chapter 20: Chalcogenides based Nano Composites
Chapter 21: Conducting Polymers based Nano Composites
Chapter 22: Other Nanocomposites
Part 5: Electrolytes for Supercapacitors
Chapter 23: Aqueous Electrolytes
Chapter 24: Non-aqueous Electrolytes
Chapter 25: Solid-State or Quasi-Solid-State Electrolytes
Chapter 26: Redox-Active Electrolytes
Part 6: Supercapacitors: Future Outlooks and Challenges
Chapter 27: Flexibles Supercapacitors
Chapter 28: Nanosupercapacitors
Chapter 29: Supercapacitors: Lab to Industry
Chapter 30: Future Direction and Challenges in Supercapacitors
