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The Electrolyte Factor in Supercapacitor Design and Performance: Conductivity, Ion Pairing and Solvation

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Electrochemical Supercapacitors

Abstract

The principal expectations for supercapacitor performance for energy storage and delivery are

  1. 1.

    excellent recyclability with cycle lives of hundreds of thousands of cycles;

  2. 2.

    substantially greater power densities of operation than those achievable with regular batteries at the same operating voltages; and

  3. 3.

    good state-of-charge indication during discharge and recharge.

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Conway, B.E. (1999). The Electrolyte Factor in Supercapacitor Design and Performance: Conductivity, Ion Pairing and Solvation. In: Electrochemical Supercapacitors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3058-6_13

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