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Polymers for Charge Storage

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Polymeric supercapacitors; Polymers for battery electrodes; Polymers for electrochemical capacitors; Polymers for energy storage

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Polymers for charge storage: polymers that can be used to store energy for use in batteries or electrochemical capacitors.

Introduction

Current and emerging electronic devices have exacerbated the need for improvements in high-performance charge storage devices (CSDs). While traditional CSDs have relied on inorganic materials, such as metals and metal oxides [1], researchers are turning more and more to organic polymers for their charge storage ability [2]. Electroactive polymers (EAPs) rely on oxidation and reduction (redox) processes to store and release charge. These polymers can be used to store energy in batteries as well as in electrochemical capacitors. The advantages of EAPs in CSDs include high conductivity, mechanical flexibility, chemical stability, raw material availability, ease of manufacturing, low cost, and reduced...

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas State University, 601 University Drive, 78666, San Marcos, TX, USA

    Jennifer A. Irvin & Zachary W. Iszard

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  1. Center for Fiber and Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Shiro Kobayashi

  2. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

    Klaus Müllen

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Irvin, J.A., Iszard, Z.W. (2015). Polymers for Charge Storage. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29648-2_205

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