Abstract: A hybrid electrochemical energy storage device having the attributes of a high power supercapacitor and a lithium ion battery are described. The hybrid electrochemical energy storage device can be a pseudocapacitor with a cathode having a coated activated carbon powder having a coated activated carbon cathode. The coated activated carbon can provide for enhanced energy density and ion conductivity. The activated carbon powder is coated with metal oxides, metal nitrides, metal sulfides, metal phosphates, polymers, and ion conducting or solid electrolytes, and a mixture thereof. More specifically, the activated carbon powder can include two or more active materials, with one of the two or more active materials being carbonaceous particles that comprise from about 50 to about 100 wt % of the composition, and the other of the two or more active materials atomic deposition layers on the carbonaceous particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode material for an electrochemical capacitor having high surface utilization efficiency, composed of a porous carbon material capable of further contributing to higher electrostatic capacitance of the electrochemical capacitor and to development of high rate characteristics; the porous carbon material having a co-continuous structural portion in which a carbon skeleton and voids form respective continuous structures, the co-continuous structural portion having a structural period of 0.002 ?m to 20 ?m.

Abstract: Provided is a super capacitor. The super capacitor, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, comprises: an energy storage assembly in which a plurality of unit modules are stacked; a sealing member arranged to surround the side portion of the energy storage assembly; upper and lower plates respectively arranged on the upper and lower portions of the energy storage assembly; and a roll force compensation member, arranged between the upper and lower plates and the energy storage assembly, for preventing the center portion of the energy storage assembly from being convexly bent toward the upper and lower plates. Accordingly, overall performance can be enhanced by reducing the thickness deviation for each position, and uniform power can be generated regardless of position by resolving imbalance in impregnation.

Abstract: Provided herein is an electrical storage device that can reduce fluctuations in pressing force applied to different portions of an insulating ring member. Eight projections 19c are integrally provided on a surface of a plate-like portion 19b of an insulating ring member 19, which opposes an annular projected portion 15, to contact the annular projected portion 15. The projections 19c are disposed at constant intervals in the circumferential direction of an axial core 11. The projections 19c are each shaped to extend in the radial direction of the axial core 11, and each have a length to project inwardly of a top portion 15a of the annular projected portion 15 in the radial direction of the axial core 11, being in contact with the annular projected portion 15.

Abstract: An electrical double layer capacitor having electrolyte-containing layer between a first polarizable electrode layer and a second polarizable electrode layer. An insulating adhesive portion adheres to a first current collector and a second current collector which at least partially face each other with the electrolyte-containing layer interposed therebetween. The insulating adhesive portion 15 extends around the first and second polarizable electrode layers and the electrolyte-containing layer. A thickness of the electrolyte-containing layer is larger than a difference between a thickness of the insulating adhesive portion and thicknesses of the first and second polarizable electrode layers.

Abstract: An electrical double layer capacitor having an electrolyte-containing layer between a first polarizable electrode layer and a second polarizable electrode layer. An insulating adhesive portion adheres to a first current collector and a second current collector and extends around the first and second polarizable electrode layers and the electrolyte-containing layer. A thickness of the insulating adhesive portion is larger than a sum of thicknesses of the first and second polarizable electrode layers and the electrolyte-containing layer.

Abstract: A laminated power storage device that includes a first end portion of a first current collector extends to an inside of an insulating adhesive portion relative to a first polarizable electrode layer, and a second end portion of a second current collector extends to an inside of the insulating adhesive portion relative to a second polarizable electrode layer.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, an asymmetric supercapacitor includes a first active material with a high hydrogen over-potential and a second active material with a high oxygen over-potential. The first active material is based on a nitride, an oxynitride, a carbide, an oxycarbide, a boride, or an oxyboride of a metal selected from Groups III, IV, V, VI, and VII of the Periodic Table.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to structural supercapacitors and electrodes for structural supercapacitors having high energy storage and high mechanical characteristics and methods of making the structural supercapacitors and electrodes. The structural supercapacitors can include a solid electrolyte and carbon fiber electrodes comprising carbon nanotubes, surface functionalized redox-active moieties, and/or a conducting polymer.

Abstract: A package electric double-layer capacitor having a first terminal that extends from a package at a first corner of a first cell, which is adjacent to a second cell, on one side in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction. A second terminal extends from the package at the first corner in the first direction and on a side of the first terminal opposite to the second cell. A third terminal extends from the package at a second corner of the second cell, which is adjacent to the first cell and the first corner. A fourth terminal extends from the package at the second corner in the first direction and on a side of the third terminal opposite to the first cell.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite is disclosed. The method includes steps of (a) providing a powder in a first weight ratio, a graphene oxide in a second weight ratio, a first modifying agent having a negative electric charge, and a second modifying agent having a positive electric charge; (b) reacting the first modifying agent with the powder so that a surface of the powder has the negative electric charge; (c) reacting the second modifying agent with the graphene oxide so that a surface of the graphene oxide has the positive electric charge; and (d) mixing the powder having the negative electric charge and the graphene oxide having the positive electric charge to form a composite.

Abstract: A supercapacitor including: a shell; a chamber in the shell; a first electrode and a second electrode on respective walls of the chamber; and a separator arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode through the chamber. The separator includes a first perforated membrane and a second perforated membrane, which is movable with respect to the first membrane between a first position, in which the first membrane and the second membrane are separate and a second position, in which the first membrane and the second membrane are in contact and coupled for rendering the separator impermeable.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly comprising a first gelated ionic liquid film in contact with a first electrically conductive surface, wherein the first gelated ionic liquid film comprises a first ionic liquid encapsulated within a gel matrix; and a second gelated ionic liquid film in contact with a second electrically conductive surface, wherein the second gelated ionic liquid film comprises a second ionic liquid encapsulated within a gel matrix; wherein the first and second gelated ionic liquid films are in contact with each other. There is also described an electrochemical cell comprising an assembly according to the invention, and methods for producing same.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrolytic capacitor according to the present disclosure includes a first step of preparing a capacitor element that includes an anode body having a dielectric layer; a second step of impregnating the capacitor element with a first treatment solution containing a conductive polymer and a first solvent; and a third step of impregnating the capacitor element with an electrolyte solution after the second step, the capacitor element being, in the third step, impregnated with the electrolyte solution while including a liquid.

Abstract: Capacitors having electrodes made of interconnected corrugated carbon-based networks (ICCNs) are disclosed. The ICCN electrodes have properties that include high surface area and high electrical conductivity. Moreover, the electrodes are fabricated into an interdigital planar geometry with dimensions that range down to a sub-micron scale. As such, micro-supercapacitors employing ICCN electrodes are fabricated on flexible substrates for realizing flexible electronics and on-chip applications that can be integrated with micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology and complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology in a single chip. In addition, capacitors fabricated of ICCN electrodes that sandwich an ion porous separator realize relatively thin and flexible supercapacitors that provide compact and lightweight yet high density energy storage for scalable applications.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a super-capacitor provides a substrate, and then adds an electrode and electrolyte template film, having a well for receiving the electrode, to the substrate. The method also adds a second electrolyte to the electrode and electrolyte template.

Abstract: This document provides an apparatus including a sintered electrode, a second electrode and a separator material arranged in a capacitive stack. A conductive interconnect couples the sintered electrode and the second electrode. Embodiments include a clip interconnect. In some embodiments, the interconnect includes a comb-shaped connector. In some embodiments, the interconnect includes a wire snaked between adjacent sintered substrates.

Abstract: An energy storage device can have a first graphite film, a second graphite film and an electrode divider ring between the first graphite film and the second graphite film, forming a sealed enclosure. The energy storage device may be compatible with an aqueous electrolyte or a non-aqueous electrolyte. A method of forming an energy storage device can include providing an electrode divider ring, a first graphite film and a second graphite film. The method can include pressing a first edge of the electrode divider ring into a surface of the first graphite film, and pressing a second opposing edge of the electrode divider ring into a surface of the second graphite film to form a sealed enclosure. The sealed enclosure may have as opposing surfaces the surface of the first graphite film and the surface of the second graphite film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode material, an electrode, an electrical storage device and a lithium-ion capacitor, and the electrode material includes a carbon material and reduces its weight at a temperature not more than 650° C. by 20% relative to the weight thereof before heating when thermogravimetric analysis is performed on the electrode material with a heating rate of 5° C./min in an air flow at a rate of 100 ml/min.

Abstract: Provided is a rope-shaped supercapacitor having a first and second conductive porous electrode in a rod shape, where the pores are filled with an electrolyte and an electrode active material. The pores of the first electrode may contain activated carbon or isolated graphene sheets. A porous separator encases the first electrode to form a separator-protected electrode. The two electrodes are combined to form a braid or twist yarn, and a protective sheath wrapps around or encases the braid or twist yarn.

Abstract: A process for producing a supercapacitor cell, comprising: (a) Continuously feeding a conductive porous layer to a cathode material impregnation zone, wherein the conductive porous layer contains interconnected electron-conducting pathways and at least 70% by volume of pores; (b) Impregnating a wet cathode active material mixture (containing a cathode active material and an optional conductive additive mixed with a liquid electrolyte) into pores of this porous layer to form a cathode electrode; (c) Preparing an anode electrode in a similar manner; and (d) Stacking an anode electrode, a porous separator, and a cathode electrode to form the supercapacitor, wherein the anode electrode and/or the cathode electrode has a thickness no less than 100 ?m; and/or wherein the anode or cathode active material constitutes an electrode active material loading no less than 7 mg/cm2 in the anode or the cathode.

Abstract: A nanographitic composite for use as an anode in a lithium ion battery includes nanoscale particles of an electroactive material; and a plurality of graphene nanoplatelets having a thickness of 0.34 nm to 5 nm and lateral dimensions of less than 900 nm, wherein the electroactive particle has an average particle size that is larger than the average lateral dimension of the graphene nanoplatelets, and the graphene nanoplatelets coat at least a portion of the nanoscale particles to form a porous nanographitic layer made up of overlapping graphene nanoplatelets.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a conductive electrode for a system for the storage of electrical energy (1) having an aqueous electrolyte solution, said electrode comprising a metal current collector (3) and an active material (7), said current collector (3) comprising at least one conductive protective layer (5) which is leaktight to electrolytes and which is placed between said metal current collector (3) and said active material (7), said conductive protective layer (5) comprising: a polymer or copolymer binder comprising at least 50% of vinyl chloride unit, a crosslinked elastomer, at least one agent for crosslinking said crosslinked elastomer, conductive fillers.

Abstract: A scaffold-free 3D porous electrode comprises a network of interconnected pores, where each pore is surrounded by a multilayer film including a first layer of electrochemically active material, one or more monolayers of graphene on the first layer of electrochemically active material, and a second layer of electrochemically active material on the one or more monolayers of graphene. A method of making a scaffold-free 3D porous electrode includes depositing one or more monolayers of graphene onto a porous scaffold to form a graphene coating on the porous scaffold, and depositing a first layer of an electrochemically active material onto the graphene coating. The porous scaffold is removed to expose an underside of the graphene coating, and a second layer of the electrochemically active material is deposited onto the underside of the graphene coating, thereby forming the scaffold-free 3D porous electrode.

Abstract: A switching material comprising one or more than one polymers and an electrolyte comprising a salt and a solvent portion comprising one or more solvents; and one or more compounds having electrochromic and photochromic properties dispersed homogeneously through the switching material; and wherein the switching material is transitionable from a light state to a dark state on exposure to UV light and from a dark state to a light state with application of an electric voltage.

Abstract: An activated carbon for an electrode of a power storage device of the present invention has uniform consecutive macropores, and a pore size distribution centered within a range of 1.5 to 25 ?m, a specific surface area within a range of 1,500 to 2,300 m2/g, a micropore volume within a range of 0.4 to 1.0 mL/g, and an average micropore width within a range of 0.7 to 1.2 nm. Provided is an activated carbon for an electrode of a power storage device suitable for an electric double layer capacitor that has high capacitance during charging and discharging at high current density and excellent endurance against charging at a high voltage of 3 V or more and a lithium-ion capacitor having excellent endurance against charging at a high voltage of 4 V or more.

Abstract: An integrated circuit has a substrate, a super-capacitor supported by the substrate, and a battery supported by the substrate. The super-capacitor includes a super-capacitor electrode and a shared electrode, and the battery has a battery electrode and the prior noted shared electrode. The super-capacitor and battery form at least a part of a monolithic integrated circuit.

Abstract: An electric double-layer ultracapacitor configured to maintain desired operation at an operating voltage of three volts, where the capacitor includes a housing component, a first and a second current collector, a positive and a negative electrode electrically coupled to one of the first and second current collectors, a separator positioned between the positive and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte in ionic contact with the electrodes and the separator. At least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode can be made of a carbon based layer having a mesoporosity and/or a microporosity optimized for ionic mobility therewithin.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a magnetic capacitor structure including a first electrode, a second electrode opposite to the first electrode, a dielectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first magnetic layer disposed between the first electrode and the dielectric layer, a second magnetic layer disposed between the second electrode and the dielectric layer, a first oxide layer disposed between the first electrode and the first magnetic layer, and a second oxide layer disposed between the second magnetic layer and the dielectric layer.

Abstract: When a coating material is rolled between rolls to generate a a coating film, and the coating film is transferred onto the coating object, at first, a residual coating material layer based on a residual coating material is formed on each of the surfaces of the rolls, and supply of the coating material and transfer of the coating film are carried out in a state where the residual coating material layer is retained on each of the surfaces of the rolls, thereby suppressing abrasions between the rolls and the coating material.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a spacer structure that is configured to be disposed between a pair of electrodes in a capacitive deionization apparatus so as to provide a space for flowing a fluid therethrough. The spacer structure includes a copolymer prepared by copolymerizing a mixture of a polyurethane backbone including a carboxyl group or a sulfonic acid group, an ion conductive monomer including a carboxyl group and a cation exchange group, and a second polymer including a functional group that reacts with the carboxyl group or sulfonic acid group and forms a cross-linking bond with the polyurethane backbone.

Abstract: A capacitor is described. A casing for the capacitor has a surrounding sidewall extending to opposed first and second open ends. An inwardly extending ledge of the sidewall is intermediate the first and second open ends. A partition plate is supported on the ledge. A first lid is secured to the first annular edge to close the first capacitor compartment bounded by the partition plate, the surrounding sidewall and the first lid, and a second lid is secured to the second annular edge to close the second capacitor compartment bounded by the opposite side of the partition plate, the surrounding sidewall and the second lid. At least one anode resides in each of the first and second capacitor compartments spaced from cathode active material supported on the casing walls facing the anodes. There is also a separator intermediate the anode and cathode. Insulative seals supported by the casing electrically isolate anode leads connected to the respective anodes from the casing serving as a terminal for the cathode.

Abstract: Provided is a separator including a first layer of a porous substance and a second layer that is provided on at least one face of the first layer and that includes a resin material and particles. The second layer has an agglomeration network structure of the particles.

Abstract: The composite electrode material for supercapacitors includes mesoporous manganese dioxide (MnO2), graphene oxide, and nanoparticles of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). The composite material is prepared by preparing mesoporous manganese dioxide, preferably by surfactant-assisted precipitation, then mixing graphene oxide with the mesoporous MnO2 is ethanol and ultrasonicating, and finally nanoparticles of MoS2 are mixed with the suspension of graphene oxide and mesoporous MnO2 to form the composite electrode material. The capacitance of the material may be varied by changing the concentration of MoS2 nanoparticles. Samples of the composite electrode material exhibited good supercapacitance values, such as 527 and 1160 F/g.

Abstract: An energy-storage device is formed from a first and a second yarn, each yarn including a plurality of nanowires including aluminum and/or a transition metal. An anode pad is in contact with the first yarn and a cathode pad is in contact with the second yarn. Alternatively, first and second metallic electrodes may be disposed substantially in parallel, with pluralities of nanowires including aluminum and/or a transition metal extending therefrom. In another embodiment, a supercapacitor may include a niobium yarn including a plurality of niobium nanowires. Each niobium nanowire may include at least (i) a first section comprising at least one of unoxidized niobium and niobium oxide; (ii) a second section comprises a niobium pentoxide layer; and (iii) a third section comprises a layer formed by dipping the niobium nanowire in at least one of a conductive polymer and a liquid metal.

Abstract: An electrochemical capacitor includes a first electrode connected to a positive terminal of a power source during the charge of the electrochemical capacitor and a second electrode connected to a negative terminal of a power source during the charge of the electrochemical capacitor. The first and the second electrodes each have a carbon material. The electrochemical capacitor further includes a porous separator to separate the first and second electrodes and to be impregnated with an almost neutral aqueous electrolyte situated between the two electrodes. The neutral aqueous electrolyte has a salt formed by a metallic cation and an anion.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, and a case configured to accommodate the electrode assembly. At least a portion of the case includes a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer, and a capacitor between the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer, and the first insulation layer is nearer to the electrode assembly than the second insulation layer.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode formed by mixing carbon powder and a fibrous carbon, wherein influence of a resin-based binder or the like and an conductivity promoting material or the like is eliminated to have low electric resistance and an excellent property of capacitance; an electric double-layer capacitor using the electrodes; and a manufacturing method of the electrode. Provided is a dispersion step in which the carbon powder with a particle size of less than 100 nm and the fibrous carbon are dispersed into a solvent. The dispersion step is to allow jets of the solution to collide with each other or to apply shear stress and centrifugal force to the solution, thereby dispersing the carbon powder and the fibrous carbon. Furthermore, the method comprises the sheet electrode forming step in which the solution subjected to the dispersion step is filtered to obtain the carbon powder/fibrous carbon sheet.

Abstract: An ionic liquid having high electrochemical stability and a low melting point. An ionic liquid represented by the following general formula (G0) is provided. In the general formula (G0), R0 to R5 are individually any of an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a methoxy group, a methoxymethyl group, a methoxyethyl group, and a hydrogen atom, and A? is a univalent imide-based anion, a univalent methide-based anion, a perfluoroalkyl sulfonic acid anion, tetrafluoroborate, or hexafluorophosphate.

Abstract: An energy storage device having improved energy density performance may include an electrolyte having a salt concentration of about 0.6 moles/L (M) to about 0.95M. A final energy storage device product having a total mass of electrolyte that is at least 100% of a saturation quantity of electrolyte sufficient to fully saturate one or more electrode(s) and separator(s) of the device, and below a threshold quantity above the saturation quantity.

Abstract: A capacitor assembly includes at least two capacitor stacks, which have a layer structure including a top layer and a bottom layer. A support assembly supports the capacitor stacks. The capacitor stacks are stacked on top of each other in the support assembly. The support assembly has a compression member which compresses the at least two capacitor stacks in a direction substantially perpendicular to the layer structure. A pressure distribution arrangement adjusts the distribution of the pressure applied to the capacitor stacks by the compression member.

Abstract: A method is described to make a chemically activated carbon by first immersing a suitable carbonized material into a neutral aqueous solution of inorganic salts that constitutes the chemical activating agent. The carbonized material is then removed and forms a chemically loaded activatable material that is separately heated at temperatures up to 1000° C. to form the chemically activated carbon. An additional CO2 or steam activation step is implemented to increase the surface area up to ˜3000 m2/gm. The chemical activating agents are nitrate salts in aqueous solutions, and may be reused since they are not directly heated as part of the activation process. The carbonized precursor materials include naturally occurring sources of carbon, synthetic polymeric materials and petroleum based sources.

Abstract: An energy storage device includes a middle section (610) including a plurality of double-sided porous structures (500), each of which contain multiple channels (511) in two opposing surfaces (515, 525) thereof, an upper section (620) comprising a single-sided porous structure (621) containing multiple channels (622) in a surface (625) thereof, and a lower section (630) including a single-sided porous structure (631) containing multiple channels (632) in a surface (635) thereof.

Abstract: A flexible, asymmetric electrochemical cell comprising: (A) A sheet of graphene paper as first electrode comprising nano graphene platelets having a platelet thickness less than 1 nm, wherein the first electrode has electrolyte-accessible pores; (B) A thin-film or paper-like first separator and electrolyte; and (C) A thin-film or paper-like second electrode which is different in composition than the first electrode; wherein the separator is sandwiched between the first and second electrode to form a flexible laminate configuration. The asymmetric supercapacitor cells with different NGP-based electrodes exhibit an exceptionally high capacitance, specific energy, and stable and long cycle life.

Abstract: There is provided an ionic compound having attached thereto a silyloxy group. There is also provided methods of making this ionic compound as well as electrolytes, electrochemical cells and capacitors comprising this ionic compound.

Abstract: An electrode for a power storage device includes carbon nanotubes, graphene, an ionic liquid, and a three-dimensional network metal porous body which holds the carbon nanotubes, the graphene, and the ionic liquid in pore portions, wherein a ratio of a total amount of the carbon nanotubes and the graphene to an amount of the ionic liquid is more than or equal to 10% by mass and less than or equal to 90% by mass, and a mass ratio between the carbon nanotubes and the graphene is within a range of 3:7 to 7:3.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for economically producing a composite powder made of carbon and electrochemical active material. According to the invention, a melt made of a meltable carbon precursor substance having nanoparticles made of an active material distributed in the melt is provided, and said melt is divided into the composite powder, in which nanoparticles made of the active material are embedded in a matrix made of the carbon precursor substance. A porous composite material produced using the composite powder is used to produce an electrode for a secondary battery, in particular for use as an anode material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a conductive material for a secondary battery, including a pitch coated graphene sheet, an anode for a secondary battery including the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the electrode.

Abstract: Provided is an electric storage device including: a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate having a polarity opposite to that of the first electrode plate, and a separator interposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, wherein the first electrode plate includes a current collector, a conductive layer laminated onto the current collector, and a mixture layer laminated onto the conductive layer, the mixture layer contains a binder and primary particles of an active material as its constituents, and the primary particles as a constituent of the mixture layer are partially retained in the conductive layer.

Abstract: A carbon-based electrode includes activated carbon, carbon black, and a binder. The binder is fluoropolymer having a molecular weight of at least 500,000 and a fluorine content of 40 to 70 wt. %. A method of forming the carbon-based electrode includes providing a binder-less conductive carbon-coated current collector, pre-treating the carbon coating with a sodium napthalenide-based solution, and depositing onto the treated carbon coating a slurry containing activated carbon, carbon black and binder.