Metal Oxides in Supercapacitors

Metal Oxides in Supercapacitors addresses the fundamentals of metal oxide-based supercapacitors and provides an overview of recent advancements in this area. Metal oxides attract most of the materials scientists use due to their excellent physico-chemical properties and stability in electrochemical systems. This justification for the usage of metal oxides as electrode materials in supercapacitors is their potential to attain high capacitance at low cost.

After providing the principles, the heart of the book discusses recent advances, including: binary metal oxides-based supercapacitors, nanotechnology, ternary metal oxides, polyoxometalates and hybrids. Moreover, the factors affecting the charge storage mechanism of metal oxides are explored in detail.

The electrolytes, which are the soul of supercapacitors and a mostly ignored character of investigations, are also exposed in depth, as is the fabrication and design of supercapacitors and their merits and demerits.

Lastly, the market status of supercapacitors and a discussion pointing out the future scope and directions of next generation metal oxides based supercapacitors is explored, making this a comprehensive book on the latest, cutting-edge research in the field.

Explores the most recent advances made in metal oxides in supercapacitorsDiscusses cutting-edge nanotechnology for supercapacitorsIncludes fundamental properties of metal oxides in supercapacitors that can be used to guide and promote technology developmentContains contributions from leading international scientists active in supercapacitor research and manufacturing

1. Introduction to supercapacitors Thierry Brousse, Jeffrey Long, Daniel Belanger and Oliver Crosnier 2. Features of design and fabrication of metal oxide-based supercapacitors (symmetric and asymmetric supercapacitors) Yuping Wu 3. Electrolytes in metal oxide supercapacitors Maria João Pedroso Carmezim, Catarina Santos 4. Fundamentals of binary metal oxides-based supercapacitors Deepak Dubal, Nilesh Chodankar, Rudolf Holze 5. Structure and basic properties of ternary metal oxides and their prospects for application in supercapacitors (Co3-xFexO4, ZnxCo3-xO4, NiCo2O4, NiFe2O4, BiFeO3, LaMnO3, etc.) Rongming Wang, Jian Wu 6. Polyoxometalates: Molecular metal oxide clusters for supercapacitors Keryn Lian, Matthew Genovese 7. Metal-Organic Frameworks based supercapacitors Adarsh Nayarassery Narayanan 8. Metal oxide based hybrids with carbon materials: advantages and challenges for application in supercapacitors Dongfang Yang, Mihnea Ionescu 9. Metal oxide/ conducting polymers based hybrid materials designed for application in supercapacitors Rudolf Holze 10. Supercapacitors - battery hybrid in organic media (Li-ion, Na-ion capacitors) Katsuhiko Naoi