Graphene-based Composites: Present, Past and Future for Supercapacitors
P. Sathish Kumar, Samir Kumar Pal, T. K. Kannan, R. Rajasekar
Graphene-based materials are promising for applications in supercapacitors and other energy storage devices due to the outstanding properties like highly tunable surface area, outstanding electrical conductivity, good chemical stability and excellent mechanical behavior. This chapter is aimed to encapsulate recent development on graphene-based materials for supercapacitor electrodes. The on-going extensive researches in respect of rationalization of their structures at varying scales and dimensions, development of effective and low-cost synthesis techniques, design and architecture of graphene-based materials, as well as clarification of their electrochemical performance have generated renewed interest in graphene-based composites. The future studies are expected to focus on the overall device performance in energy storage devices and large-scale process in low costs for the promising applications in portable and wearable electronic, transport, electrical and hybrid vehicles.
Keywords
Supercapacitors, Graphene, Thermal Reduction, Energy Materials, Electronic Applications, Electrode Materials
Published online 2/25/2018, 25 pages
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291579-9
Part of Electrochemical Capacitors
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