Advances in Supercapacitors with Symmetry/Asymmetry
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 520
Special Issue Editors
Interests: catalysis/photocatalysis; solar cells; super capacitors/battery; hydrophobic surfaces
Interests: energy storage
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research on new, reliable, renewable, and sustainable sources of energy has paved the way for the design and development of novel energy conversion and storage devices. Energy storage, conversion, and utilization based on energy-efficient technologies such as windmills, solar cells, and fuel cells, have become the need of the day in meeting the basic requirements of man in modern life. Many of these renewable and sustainable energy-efficient technologies mainly rely on environmentally friendly energy storage devices like batteries and supercapacitors (SCs). As far as a single-cell supercapacitor is concerned, there are three distinct classes of system configurations based the composition of electrode materials:symmetric, asymmetric, and hybrid supercapacitors, even though the distinction between asymmetric and hybrid supercapacitors remains controversial. Symmetric supercapacitors, as the name suggests, are composed of identical materials on both electrodes, whether it is a carbon-based EDLC electrode or a pseudocapacitive electrode. The majority of commercial devices are asymmetric, based on activated carbon, in combination with pseudocapacitor or hybrid electrode materials based on transition metal oxides, conducting polymers or other carbonaceous materials. Hence, symmetric and asymmetric supercapacitors are one of the most advanced area of research in case super capacitors. This Special Issue invites original research articles from advanced area of symmetric and asymmetric supercapacitors.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Symmetric/asymmetric supercapacitor system design considerations
- Carbon-based electrode materials used for supercapacitors
- Different electrode material synthesis methods for symmetric/asymmetric supercapacitors
- Metal oxide electrode materials used for symmetric/asymmetric supercapacitors
- Functionalization of electrodes used for symmetric/asymmetric supercapacitors
- Applications of symmetric/asymmetric supercapacitors in various fields
- Asymmetric hybrid supercapacitors
- Composite hybrid supercapacitors rechargeable battery-type hybrid supercapacitors
Dr. Baiju Vijayan
Dr. Anjali Paravanoor
Dr. Shajesh Palantavida
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- supercapacitor
- electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLCs)
- hybrid capacitors
- pseudocapacitors
- electrode materials
- carbon based materials
- metal oxides
- electrolyte
- asymmetric hybrid capacitors
- separators
- rechargeable battery type capacitors
- composite type
