Choudhury, NA. and Sampath, S. and Shukla, A.K. (2009) Hydrogel-polymer electrolytes for electrochemical capacitors: an overview. Energy & Environmental Science, 2 (1). pp. 55-67. ISSN 1754-5692

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Abstract

Electrochemical capacitors are electrochemical devices with fast and highly reversible charge-storage and discharge capabilities. The devices are attractive for energy storage particularly in applications involving high-power requirements. Electrochemical capacitors employ two electrodes and an aqueous or a non-aqueous electrolyte, either in liquid or solid form; the latter provides the advantages of compactness, reliability, freedom from leakage of any liquid component and a large operating potential-window. One of the classes of solid electrolytes used in capacitors is polymer-based and they generally consist of dry solid-polymer electrolytes or gel-polymer electrolyte or composite-polymer electrolytes. Dry solid-polymer electrolytes suffer from poor ionic-conductivity values, between 10�8 and 10�7 S cm�1 under ambient conditions, but are safer than gel-polymer electrolytes that exhibit high conductivity of ca. 10�3 S cm�1 under ambient conditions. The aforesaid polymer-based electrolytes have the advantages of a wide potential window of ca. 4 V and hence can provide high energy-density. Gel-polymer electrolytes are generally prepared using organic solvents that are environmentally malignant. Hence, replacement of organic solvents with water in gel-polymer electrolytes is desirable which also minimizes the device cost substantially. The water containing gel-polymer electrolytes, called hydrogel-polymer electrolytes, are, however, limited by a low operating potential-window of only about 1.23 V. This article reviews salient features of electrochemical capacitors employing hydrogel-polymer electrolytes.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Fuel Cells Electrochemical Power Sources
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Depositing User:	TTBD CECRI
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2012 12:37
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2012 12:37
URI:	http://cecri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/353

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