Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

High energy flexible supercapacitors formed via bottom-up infilling of gel electrolytes into thick porous electrodes

  • Xiangming Li,
  • Jinyou Shao,
  • Sung-Kon Kim,
  • Chaochao Yao,
  • Junjie Wang,
  • Yu-Run Miao,
  • Qiye Zheng,
  • Pengcheng Sun,
  • Runyu Zhang,
  • Paul V. Braun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04937-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The development of high performance flexible solid supercapacitors calls for an effective approach to infill gel electrolytes into porous electrodes. Here the authors report a bottom-up method to address this technical challenge, which leads to enhanced areal capacitance and durability.