Abstract: Fabricating a capacitor includes forming conduits in a porous layer of material. The porous layer of material has particles that each includes a dielectric on a core. The formation of the conduits causes a portion of the dielectric to convert from a first phase to a second phase. The method also includes removing at least a portion of the second phase of the dielectric from the porous layer of material.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a polymer capacitor and a polymer capacitor are disclosed. In an embodiment a method for manufacturing a polymer capacitor includes winding an anode foil, a cathode foil and separator foils to form a winding, impregnating the winding with a dispersion comprising a solvent and a polymer precursor and extracting the solvent from the winding by supercritical fluid extraction.

Abstract: In a packaging body provided with at least an inner layer composed of a thermal-adhesive polyolefin based resin and a barrier layer composed of a metal foil, in which metal terminals are sealed by the thermal-adhesive resin with unconnected ends of the metal terminals protruding outside, an adhesive sheet for sealing metal terminals of a flat electrochemical cell which is not only able to prevent a short circuit between the barrier layer and the metal terminals but high in a layer-to-layer adhesive strength and a low possibility of a reduction in battery performance to be caused due to invasion of moisture is provided. In the adhesive sheet for sealing a metal terminal part of a flat electrochemical cell according to the invention, a fibrous sheet or a porous sheet is covered by the inner layer and an acid-modified polyolefin based resin layer having adhesive properties.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor element having electrode foils on the anode side and the cathode side laminated via separators, connecting parts of terminal components being disposed inside a laminated portion of the electrode foils and the separators, the connecting parts being connected to the electrode foils on the anode side and the cathode side; and a case that includes a storage part storing the capacitor element and having an opening portion sealed by a sealing body, that has a crimped part crimped from the outside of the storage part toward a side surface of the capacitor element, and that holds the capacitor element with the crimped part. The case is crimped to form the crimped part while avoiding a position at which the electrode foils of the capacitor element in the storage part overlap with tip portions of the connecting parts of the terminal components.

Abstract: The present invention provides solid electrolytic capacitor with excellent properties in high-voltage application of 80V or more and a manufacturing method thereof. The solid electrolytic capacitor is manufactured by: forming, in a capacitor element with an anode electrode foil and a cathode electrode foil wound with an interposed separator, a solid electrolyte layer by using a conductive polymer dispersion in which particles of a conductive polymer dispersed in a solvent; and filling voids inside the capacitor element in which the solid electrolyte layer has been formed with an electrolytic solution containing less than 9 wt % of a salt of a composite compound of inorganic acid and organic acid as a solute for filling.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrolytic capacitor is performed in the following procedure. A solid electrolyte layer including a conductive polymer and a polyhydric alcohol is formed on an anode body on which a dielectric layer is formed. Then, the anode body on which the solid electrolyte layer is formed is impregnated with a first treatment liquid that contains an oxoacid having two or more hydroxy groups.

Abstract: An improved capacitor is described herein. The capacitor comprises a working element wherein the working element comprises an anode comprising a dielectric thereon and an anode conductive polymer layer on the dielectric. The capacitor also includes a cathode comprising a cathode conductive polymer layer and a conductive separator between the anode and said cathode. An anode lead is in electrical contact with the anode and a cathode lead is in electrical contact with the cathode.

Abstract: A capacitor and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The capacitor includes a porous substrate, an electrolyte composition, and a pair of electrodes. The porous substrate has a plurality of holes. The electrolyte composition is located in the holes of the porous substrate, and the electrolyte composition includes an electrolyte solution and a nano carbon material dispersed in the electrolyte solution. The electrodes are respectively located on two opposite surfaces of the porous substrate.

Abstract: A high voltage proof solid electrolytic capacitor that can prevent deterioration of voltage proof property due to lead-free reflow etc. and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A capacitor element having an anode and cathode electrode foils wound via a separator is impregnated with a dispersion comprising conductive polymer particles or powder and a solvent to form a solid electrolyte layer consisting of a conductive polymer, and the voids inside the capacitor element having the solid electrolyte layer formed are filled with an ion-conducting substance comprising a mixed solvent comprising ethylene glycol and ?-butyrolactone together with a solute selected from at least one type of an ammonium salt, a quaternary ammonium salt, a quaternized amidinium salt, and an amine salt of an organic acid, an inorganic acid, and a composite compound between organic acid and inorganic acids to obtain a solid electrolytic capacitor.

Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and an electrolyte solution impregnated in the capacitor element. The capacitor element includes an anode foil, cathode foil, separator, and a solid electrolytic layer. The anode foil has a dielectric layer on its surface, and the cathode foil confronts the anode foil. The separator is interposed between the anode foil and the cathode foil. The solid electrolytic layer is formed on the surfaces of the anode foil, cathode foil, and separator as an aggregate of fine particles of conductive polymer. The separator has an air-tightness not greater than 2.0 s/100 ml. Sizes of the fine particles measure not greater than 100 nm in diameter, and an amount of the fine particles contained falls within a range from 0.3 mg/cm2 to 1.2 mg/cm2, inclusive, as converted to weight per unit area of the anode foil.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to hybrid capacitors specifically to PbO2/Activated Carbon hybrid ultracapacitors. The present disclosure is also related to hybrid capacitors specifically to PbO2/Activated Carbon hybrid ultracapacitors with an inorganic thixotropic-gelled-polymeric-electrolyte. The hybrid ultracapacitors of the present disclosure is simple to assemble, bereft of impurities and can be fast charged/discharged with high faradiac-efficiency.

Abstract: An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).

Abstract: Electrochemical energy storage devices such as electric double layer capacitors include a flexible metal contact current collector establishing electrical contact with a conductive housing at numerous contact points. The flexible current collector simplifies manufacturing of the device and avoids laser welding on the conductive housing. The manufacture devices are operable with a reduced direct current resistance by virtue of the flexible current collector.

Abstract: A collector for an electric double layer capacitor including a conductive sheet, and a film adhered on surface of the conductive sheet and including carbon fine particle and polysaccharide and/or cross-linked polysaccharide. An electrode for an electric double layer capacitor including a collector having a conductive sheet and a film adhered on surface of the conductive sheet, and a film including activated carbon and adhered on surface of the film of the collector. The film of the collector includes carbon fine particle and polysaccharide and/or cross-linked polysaccharide. An electric double layer capacitor including an electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte. The electrode includes a collector having a conductive sheet and a film adhered on surface of the conductive sheet, and a film including activated carbon and adhered on surface of the film of the collector. The film of the collector includes carbon fine particle and polysaccharide and/or cross-linked polysaccharide.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a case capable of receiving a plurality of capacitive elements, each capacitor element having at least two capacitors, and each capacitor having a capacitive value. The apparatus also includes a cover assembly with a peripheral edge secured to the case. The cover assembly includes, for each of the plurality of capacitive elements, a cover terminal that extends upwardly from the cover assembly generally at a central region of the cover assembly. Each cover terminal is connected to one of the at least two capacitors of the respective one of the plurality of capacitive elements. The cover assembly also includes, for each of the plurality of capacitive elements, a cover terminal that extends upwardly from the cover assembly at a position spaced apart from the cover terminal generally at the central region of the cover assembly.

Abstract: An asymmetric supercapacitor includes a first structure and a second structure spaced apart from said second structure. One of the structures comprises an anode, and the other of the first and second structures comprises a cathode, wherein the first structure comprises an activated carbon electrode, and the second structure comprises a nanocomposite electrode. The nanocomposite electrode comprises a first network of nanowires that are interpenetrating with a second network of carbon nanotubes.

Abstract: An electrode useful in an energy storage system, such as a capacitor, includes an electrode that includes at least one to a plurality of layers of compressed carbon nanotube aggregate. Methods of fabrication are provided. The resulting electrode exhibits superior electrical performance in terms of gravimetric and volumetric power density.

Abstract: An electrode for electric double-layer capacitor includes a collector with a protective layer containing phosphorous on its surface, and a polarizable electrode layer that is formed on this collector and can adsorb and desorb ions. An amount of a phosphorous compound per unit surface area of the collector, eluted when the collector is immersed into water, is not greater than 1.35 mg/m2 in terms of phosphorous equivalent. An electric double-layer capacitor employs this electrode for at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode.

Abstract: The electrochemical cell of the present invention is provided with a hermetic container having a base member, a jointing material fixed to the base member, and a lid member welded on the base member via the jointing material, and in which a housing space sealed between the base member and the lid member is defined, and an electrochemical element which is housed inside the housing space and which is available to effect charging and discharging, wherein the lid member is made of stainless steel.

Abstract: An aluminum material, a dielectric layer and an interposing layer formed in at least one part of a region of the surface of the aluminum material between the aluminum material and the dielectric layer and includes aluminum and carbon, wherein the dielectric layer includes dielectric particles including a valve metal, and an organic substance layer formed on at least one part of a surface of the dielectric particle.

Abstract: A method of increasing the area of carbon nanotubes used in fabricating capacitors is described. The method involves reacting carbon nanotubes with electrically conductive ions, molecules or nanoparticles that increase the surface area of the nanotubes. The capacitance and the energy stored in the capacitor can be increased by such treatment. Devices constructed from such treated materials and their properties are described.

Abstract: There is provided a high performance solid electrolytic capacitor that can be manufactured stably. The present invention provides the solid electrolytic capacitor comprising an anode foil and a cathode foil, and a separator arranged between the anode foil and the cathode foil, wherein the anode foil, the cathode foil, and the separator are wound around, so that the separator is intervened between the anode foil and the cathode foil, the anode foil has a dielectric oxide film layer, the separator comprises a solid electrolyte and a nonwoven fabric holding the solid electrolyte, the nonwoven fabric composing the separator is a laminated nonwoven fabric having at least two layers of the nonwoven fabric layers, and the laminated nonwoven fabric comprises a nonwoven fabric layer (layer I) composed of ultra fine fiber having a fiber diameter of 0.1 to 4 ?m, and a nonwoven fabric layer (layer II) composed of a thermoplastic resin fiber having a fiber diameter of 6 to 30 ?m.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for electrochemical capacitor devices. Some example electrochemical capacitor devices may include a composite electrode that includes an electrode substrate coupled to a polymeric electrochemical layer. The polymeric electrochemical layer may include: a conductive polymer electrically coupled to the electrode substrate; a solid state, ionically conductive electrolyte polymer; and non-conducting cross-links that covalently link the conductive polymer and the electrolyte polymer. Various example electrochemical capacitor devices may be constructed by laminating two of the composite electrodes against opposing sides of an ionically conducting separator membrane, and contacting the composite electrodes and the separator membrane with a liquid electrolyte. Some example electrochemical capacitor devices may display favorable performance such as symmetric charge storage, non-Faradic charge storage, and/or similar or greater capacity compared to carbon based systems.

Abstract: A three-dimensional network aluminum porous body in which the amount of aluminum forming a skeleton of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is uneven in the thickness direction, and a current collector and an electrode each using the aluminum porous body, and a manufacturing method thereof. In such a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector, the amount of aluminum forming a skeleton of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is uneven in the thickness direction. For example, in the case where a cross section in the thickness direction of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is divided into three regions of a region 1, a region 2 and a region 3 in this order, each region is configured so that the average of the amounts of aluminum in the region 1 and the region 3 differs from the amount of aluminum in the region 2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a power system for a vehicle. The power system comprising a supercapacitor-like electronic battery that is connected to a battery charger. The battery charger provides energy to the supercapacitor-like electronic battery. A heater is operatively connected to the supercapacitor-like electronic battery to provide energy to heat the supercapacitor-like electronic battery thereby lowering the internal impedance of the supercapacitor-like electronic battery. A charging apparatus is operatively connected to the battery charger. A motor is operatively connected to the vehicle and the supercapacitor-like electronic battery. A feedback loop controller is operatively connected to the heater, the supercapacitor-like electronic battery and the motor.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a way to reduce the internal resistance of a lithium ion capacitor without causing its capacity or withstand voltage to drop. The present invention provides a lithium ion capacitor having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte solution, wherein the separator contains cellulose that has been given a treatment to create carbon-carbon double bonds.

Abstract: An electrical double-layer capacitor electrode with excellent capacitance characteristics is obtained together with a manufacturing method therefor. Paper-molded sheet of carbon nanotubes is integrated with etched foil constituting a collector, by means of bumps and indentations formed on the surface of etched foil to prepare an electrical double-layer capacitor electrode. Alternatively, carbon nanotubes grown around core catalyst particles on substrate are integrated with etched foil by means of bumps and indentations formed on the surface of etched foil to prepare an electrical double-layer capacitor electrode. To manufacture these electrodes, this carbon nanotube sheet or substrate with carbon nanotubes grown thereon is laid over bumps and indentations on the surface of etched foil, and the sheet or substrate and the foil are pressed under 0.01 to 100 t/cm2 of pressure to integrate the carbon nanotubes with the etched foil.

Abstract: An electrochemical capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a membrane, and an electrolyte. The first electrode includes a carbon nanotube composite. The carbon nanotube composite includes a free-standing carbon nanotube structure, and a plurality of nano grains located on the carbon nanotube structure. The membrane is located between the first electrode and the second electrode, to separate the first electrode from the second electrode. The first electrode, the second electrode, and the membrane are disposed in the electrolyte.

Abstract: An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for a capacitor device that includes parallel nanotubes. Such a capacitor device may include two parallel electrodes, each of which includes an array of nanotubes that extends from the surface of the respective electrode towards the other electrode. The nanotubes can be substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to the electrode from which they extend. The space between the electrodes and the nanotubes can be filled with an electrolyte or dielectric material, for example, a solution of an electrolyte solute in a suitable solvent. Such a capacitor device can have high electrode surface area but can avoid pore effects, in comparison to high surface area porous electrodes which do not have interpenetrating electrodes.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hybrid capacitor including: a first structure including a cathode containing activated carbon and an anode containing lithium; and a second structure including activated carbon layers formed on both surfaces of a current collector. With the hybrid capacitor, characteristics of an LIC and characteristics of an EDLC are implemented in a single cell, thereby making it possible to increase energy density and improve output characteristics.

Abstract: An electrolyte includes an organic solvent, a solute and a compound represented by chemical formula [1], both contained in the organic solvent. R1 and R2 represent a methyl group or an ethyl group; R3 represents a functional group having a straight chain including three or more carbon atoms and a hydroxyl group bonded to a terminal carbon; C represents a carbon atom; H represents a hydrogen atom; O represents an oxygen atom; and N represents a nitrogen atom.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical energy storage device provided with a metallic casing to receive a bare cell and first and second terminals located outside of the metallic casing corresponding to each electrode of the bare cell, including a plate-like member provided on at least one of the first and second terminals, an inner terminal contacting the plate-like member to form the boundary between the inner terminal and the plate-like member, and a laser welded portion formed along the boundary between the inner terminal and the plate-like member to connect the plate-like member with the inner terminal.

Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and an electrolyte solution impregnated into the capacitor element. The capacitor element includes an anode foil, cathode foil, separator, and a solid electrolytic layer. The anode foil has a dielectric layer on its surface, and the cathode foil confronts the anode foil. The separator is interposed between the anode foil and the cathode foil. The solid electrolytic layer is formed on the surfaces of the anode foil, cathode foil, and separator as an aggregate of fine particles of conductive polymer. The separator has an air-tightness not greater than 2.0 s/100 ml. Sizes of the fine particles measure not greater than 100 nm in diameter, and the fine particles are contained in an amount ranging from 0.3 mg/cm2 to 1.2 mg/cm2 converted to amounts per unit area of the anode foil.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for an electrochemical double-layer capacitor for hostile environments. An electrochemical double-layer capacitor includes two electrodes wetted with an electrolyte, each electrode being attached to or in contact with or coated onto a current collector and separated from each other by a separator porous to the electrolyte, the electrodes, electrolyte and current collector containing less than 1,000 parts per million (ppm) of impurities, while exhibiting a leakage current less than 1 amp per liter of volume over a range of operating temperatures and at a voltage up to a rated voltage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a supercapacitor with a double electrochemical layer that comprises at least two complexes (2, 3) and at least one spacer (4) between the two complexes (2, 3), the complexes (2, 3) and the spacer (4) being spirally wound together in order to form a coiled member (10), characterized in that it further comprises at least another complex (1) and at least another spacer (4), the other complex (1) and the other spacer (4) being spirally wound together around the coiled member (10) in order to form at least one subsequent coiled member (20), the consecutive coiled members (10, 20) being separated by an electronic insulation space.

Abstract: A pseudocapacitor employs plates having an active material of a nanoparticles sized ceramic mixed ionic-electronic conductor such as may have the nominal formula of ABO3, A2BO4, AB2O4, and AO2, where A and B are metals. The active material may be prepared to promote sublattice vacancies to provide for the storage of additional charge.

Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor in which a capacitor element can be fixed firmly into a metal case without having adverse effects on the electrical characteristics of the electrolytic capacitor. An anode foil provided with an anode internal terminal and a cathode foil provided with a cathode internal terminal are wound or laminated through a separator to produce a capacitor element. The capacitor element is then contained in a metal case together with a driving electrolyte, and then the side surface of the metal case is caulked to press and fix the capacitor element, thus producing an electrolytic capacitor. The electrolytic capacitor is characterized in that a tape material is wound by a plurality of turns around the outer circumference of the capacitor element between the capacitor element and the caulking of the metal case such that a total thickness of the tape material is so large as to relax deformation of the capacitor element when the side surface of the metal case is caulked.

Abstract: A device for generating electrical energy from the heat dissipated by a heat source, comprising: a capacitor comprising two electrodes between which a ferroelectric material is present, said capacitor being arranged so as to be positioned to capture all or part of the heat dissipated by said heat source; a capacitive element a first electrode of which is connected to a first electrode of said capacitor; a recovery circuit interposed between the second electrode of said capacitor and the second electrode of the capacitive element, and able to have the current flowing between said second electrodes pass through it. a mechanism adapted to move the capacitor with respect to the heat source, said mechanism having at least one arm able to move between two positions, the capacitor being closer to the heat source in one of the two positions.

Abstract: There is provided an electrochemical capacitor including a lid; a case having a via, and forming a liquid chamber together with the lid; an electric storage element housed in the liquid chamber; an electrolyte housed in the liquid chamber; a wiring having a via part arranged within the via, and connecting an inside to an outside of the liquid chamber; an extraction electrode connected to the via part; an overcoating layer for coating the extraction electrode, and having an opening to expose a partial region of the extraction electrode; and a conductive adhesive layer for fixing the electric storage element to the overcoating layer, and electrically connecting the electric storage element to the extraction electrode through the opening.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a first collector made of metal foil, a first electrode layer placed on a surface of the first collector and mainly containing a carbonaceous material, a resin layer provided on the first electrode layer, a second electrode provided on the resin layer and mainly containing a carbonaceous material, a second collector provided on the second electrode layer and made of metal foil, a case accommodating the first collector, the first electrode layer, the resin layer, the second electrode, and the second collector therein, and an electrolyte accommodated in the case. The resin layer has a non-woven fabric form of fibers made of resin irregularly bonded to one another. The fibers of the resin layer intertwine with the first electrode layer. The fibers of the resin layer intertwine with the first electrode layer. This capacitor can be thin and small.

Abstract: A container 11 of a surface mounting electrochemical device according to an embodiment of the invention comprises a first metal component 11a having a recess 11a1, a second metal component 11b directly welded to the first metal component 11a to close the opening of the recess 11a1. A first electrode 16a of an electric storage element 16 is electrically insulated from the container 11, and a second electrode 16b electrically conducts thereto. A first terminal 14 is electrically insulated from the container 11 and electrically conducts to the first electrode 16a of the electric storage element 16 via a relaying element 13. A second terminal 15 electrically conducts to the container 11 and the second electrode 16b of the electric storage element 16 via the container 11.

Abstract: A mesoporous, nanocrystalline, metal oxide construct particularly suited for capacitive energy storage that has an architecture with short diffusion path lengths and large surface areas and a method for production are provided. Energy density is substantially increased without compromising the capacitive charge storage kinetics and electrode demonstrates long term cycling stability. Charge storage devices with electrodes using the construct can use three different charge storage mechanisms immersed in an electrolyte: (1) cations can be stored in a thin double layer at the electrode/electrolyte interface (non-faradaic mechanism); (2) cations can interact with the bulk of an electroactive material which then undergoes a redox reaction or phase change, as in conventional batteries (faradaic mechanism); or (3) cations can electrochemically adsorb onto the surface of a material through charge transfer processes (faradaic mechanism).

Abstract: Electrical devices having electrodes containing carbon nanotubes infused to a substrate are described herein. The electrical devices contain at least a first electrode material containing a first plurality of carbon nanotubes infused to a first substrate and a second electrode material containing a second plurality of carbon nanotubes infused to a second substrate. The first electrode material and the second electrode material are wound in a spiral configuration about a central axis. The electrical devices can be supercapacitors, which also contain at least an electrolyte in contact with the first electrode material and the second electrode material, and a first separator material disposed between the first electrode material and the second electrode material. Methods and apparatuses for making the electrical devices are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: The present application is generally directed to energy storage materials such as activated carbon comprising enhanced particle packing properties and devices containing the same. The energy storage materials find utility in any number of devices, for example, in electric double layer capacitance devices and batteries. Methods for making the energy storage materials are also disclosed.

Abstract: A capacitor having improved tolerance to humidity. The capacitor includes a packaging material and/or a dielectric material comprising a film having a water vapor transmission rate significantly lower than the dielectric films and/or packaging films used in conventional capacitors.

Abstract: An electrode structure which provides adhesiveness between an aluminum material, as a base material, and a dielectric layer, and adhesiveness between the dielectric layers, and enables a high capacitance, even with a thick dielectric layer. An interposing layer is formed in at least one part of a region of the surface of the aluminum material between the aluminum material and the dielectric layer and includes aluminum and carbon. The dielectric layer includes dielectric particles including valve metal, and an organic substance layer formed on at least one part of a surface of the dielectric particle. A mixture layer of dielectric particles, including the valve metal and a binder, is formed on a surface of the aluminum material, and thereafter, the aluminum material is heated in a state where the aluminum material is placed in a space including a hydrocarbon-containing substance.

Abstract: An electrode material is created by forming a thin coating or small deposits of metal oxide as an intercalation host on a carbon powder. The carbon powder performs a role in the synthesis of the oxide coating, in providing a three-dimensional, electronically conductive substrate supporting the metal oxide, and as an energy storage contribution material through ion adsorption or intercalation. The metal oxide includes one or more metal oxides. The electrode material, a process for producing said electrode material, an electrochemical capacitor and an electrochemical secondary (rechargeable) battery using said electrode material is disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for coating nanoparticles with graphene, comprising the steps of (a) providing a suspension comprising a suspension medium and nanoparticles with positive surface charge, (b) adding graphene oxide particles to the suspension from step (a), the graphene oxide particles accumulating on the nanoparticles, and (c) converting the graphene oxide particles accumulated on the nanoparticles to graphene, to graphene-coated nanoparticles comprising at least one metal, a semimetal, a metal compound and/or a semimetal compound, and to the use of these graphene-coated nanoparticles in electrochemical cells and supercapacitors, and to supercapacitors and electrochemical cells comprising these nanoparticles.

Abstract: Implementations and techniques for employing phase change materials in ultracapacitor devices or systems are generally disclosed.