Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Salt concentration and charging velocity determine ion charge storage mechanism in nanoporous supercapacitors

  • C. Prehal,
  • C. Koczwara,
  • H. Amenitsch,
  • V. Presser,
  • O. Paris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06612-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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To improve supercapacitor performance, mechanisms of operation should be understood. Here the authors identify parameters controlling ion charge storage mechanisms and show that charging initially implies a non-equilibrium ion configuration followed by charge-neutral equilibration.