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Dear Colleagues,
In 2003, Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley delineated that energy is the topmost problem faced by human society. The increasing demand for energy and concerns about environmental pollution have triggered scientists to develop high performance, cost-effective, and environmental-friendly devices for energy storage applications. Supercapacitors are one of the advanced energy storage devices, have been drawing significant attention lately, because of their unique advantages such as pulse power supply, rapid charging time, outstanding service life, and operational safety. Supercapacitors are emerging as a substitute power source over conventional batteries for a wide range of applications in electric vehicles, portable electronics, energy harvesting systems. However, the major challenge for supercapacitors is their insufficient energy density, which limits their more widespread applications. Recent works focus on development of high performance, cost-effective and green materials to improve energy density and thus the device performance.
This Special Issue includes, but is not limited, the following topics:
Green materials for energy storage
Nanostructured metal oxides as an electrode for supercapacitors
Supercapacitors for high-temperature applications
Chalcogens for energy storage applications
Carbon and related structure as an electrode material
Flexible supercapacitors
Polymers for supercapacitors
Prof. Dr. Ram K. Gupta
Guest Editor
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