Issue 9, 2017

Multidimensional performance optimization of conducting polymer-based supercapacitor electrodes

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.

Graphical abstract: Multidimensional performance optimization of conducting polymer-based supercapacitor electrodes

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
17 Jūl. 2017
Accepted
14 Aug. 2017
First published
11 Sept. 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2017,1, 1857-1874

Multidimensional performance optimization of conducting polymer-based supercapacitor electrodes

K. D. Fong, T. Wang and S. K. Smoukov, Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2017, 1, 1857 DOI: 10.1039/C7SE00339K

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. You can use material from this article in other publications without requesting further permissions from the RSC, provided that the correct acknowledgement is given.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements