Microscopic simulations of electrochemical double-layer capacitors

G Jeanmairet, B Rotenberg, M Salanne - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) are devices allowing the storage or
production of electricity. They function through the adsorption of ions from an electrolyte on …

Nanoporous carbon for electrochemical capacitive energy storage

H Shao, YC Wu, Z Lin, PL Taberna… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The urgent need for efficient energy storage devices has stimulated a great deal of research
on electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLCs). This review aims at summarizing the …

Electrode material–ionic liquid coupling for electrochemical energy storage

X Wang, M Salari, D Jiang, J Chapman Varela… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The development of new electrolyte and electrode designs and compositions has led to
advances in electrochemical energy-storage (EES) devices over the past decade. However …

Efficient storage mechanisms for building better supercapacitors

M Salanne, B Rotenberg, K Naoi, K Kaneko… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
Supercapacitors are electrochemical energy storage devices that operate on the simple
mechanism of adsorption of ions from an electrolyte on a high-surface-area electrode. Over …

Revitalizing carbon supercapacitor electrodes with hierarchical porous structures

T Liu, F Zhang, Y Song, Y Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon materials, owing to their excellent electrical conductivity, tailorability,
inexpensiveness and versatility, have been extensively studied as electrode materials for …

Structure and nanostructure in ionic liquids

R Hayes, GG Warr, R Atkin - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Much of chemistry is concerned with the study of reactions and processes in solution, that is,
where liquids are used as solvents. 2, 3 The solvent is the (excess) liquid phase in which …

Nanoconfined ionic liquids

S Zhang, J Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Deng - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) have been widely investigated as novel solvents, electrolytes, and soft
functional materials. Nevertheless, the widespread applications of ILs in most cases have …

New perspectives on the charging mechanisms of supercapacitors

AC Forse, C Merlet, JM Griffin… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Supercapacitors (or electric double-layer capacitors) are high-power energy storage devices
that store charge at the interface between porous carbon electrodes and an electrolyte …

Partial breaking of the Coulombic ordering of ionic liquids confined in carbon nanopores

R Futamura, T Iiyama, Y Takasaki, Y Gogotsi… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Ionic liquids are composed of equal quantities of positive and negative ions. In the bulk,
electrical neutrality occurs in these liquids due to Coulombic ordering, in which ion shells of …

Computational insights into materials and interfaces for capacitive energy storage

C Zhan, C Lian, Y Zhang, MW Thompson… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Supercapacitors such as electric double‐layer capacitors (EDLCs) and pseudocapacitors
are becoming increasingly important in the field of electrical energy storage. Theoretical …