Organic Electrolytes for Supercapacitors
Ivy Heng, Chin Wei Lai, Joon Ching Juan
Organic electrolytes can provide comprehensive opportunities for assembling high-energy supercapacitors because of their wide potential windows. The most conventional organic electrolytes are acetonitrile and propylene carbonate. The detailed review of different types of solvents and salts present in organic electrolytes are discussed through extensive analysis of the literature. This chapter intends to provide an overall assessment of organic electrolytes in use in present supercapacitor applications. Several possible oversights for the rational selection of future organic electrolytes are proposed for supercapacitor devices.
Keywords
Organic Electrolytes, Solvents, Solutes, Acetonitrile, Propylene Carbonate, Tetrafluoroborate
Published online 11/5/2019, 10 pages
Citation: Ivy Heng, Chin Wei Lai, Joon Ching Juan, Organic Electrolytes for Supercapacitors, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 61, pp 1-10, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900499-1
Part of the book on Supercapacitor Technology
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