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Conducting polymer‐based flexible supercapacitor

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Flexible supercapacitors, a state‐of‐the‐art material, have emerged with the potential to enable major advances in for cutting‐edge electronic applications. Flexible supercapacitors are governed by the fundamentals standard for the conventional capacitors but provide high flexibility, high charge storage and low resistance of electro active materials to achieve high capacitance performance. Conducting polymers (CPs) are among the most potential pseudocapacitor materials for the foundation of flexible supercapacitors, motivating the existing energy storage devices toward the future advanced flexible electronic applications due to their high redox active‐specific capacitance and inherent elastic polymeric nature. This review focuses on different types of CPs‐based supercapacitor, the relevant fabrication methods and designing concepts. It describes recent developments and remaining challenges in this field, and its impact on the future direction of flexible supercapacitor materials and relevant device fabrications.

Source: Energy Science & Engineering

DOI: 10.1002/ese3.50

Authors: Indrajit Shown, Abhijit Ganguly, Li‐Chyong Chen, Kuei‐Hsien Chen

Institutions: Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University

Language: English

Topic: Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication

Subfield: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,780

Funders: Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University, Air Force Office of Scientific Research