Smart Supercapacitors. Fundamentals, Structures, and Applications

Table of Contents

Part One: Fundamentals of supercapacitors 1 General introduction about electrochemistry and supercapacitors 2 Historical perspective of electrochemical energy storage devices 3 Supercapacitors-new developments 4 Fundamental understanding of charge storage mechanism 5 Fundamentals of supercapacitors 6 Research and technology on smart supercapacitors 7 Rapidly emerging aspects & future R&D directions for supercapacitor 8 Smart supercapacitors-a new perspective

Part Two: Material for Supercapacitors 9 Electrode materials for EDLC and pseudocapacitors 10 Hybrid supercapacitors, formation, and new advances with different electrochemical electrodes based on layered double hydroxides (LDHs), metal-organic framework (MOF) materials, smart supercapacitors 11 Electrolyte materials for supercapacitors 12 Nanomaterials for supercapacitors 13 Nanocarbons (graphene, etc.), MXenes for energy storage applications 14 Novel designs of carbon electrodes for the technological improvement of electrochemical capacitors

Part Three: Structures for Supercapacitors 15 Design and fabrication of supercapacitors 16 Development of symmetric and asymmetric supercapacitors-a step towards efficient and practical energy storage 17 Metal-based hybrid capacitors 18 Recent progress on materials, architecture, and performances of hybrid battery-supercapacitors

Part Four: Smart Supercapacitors 19 Transport supercapacitors 20 Flexible supercapacitors 21 Recent advances in microsupercapacitors: material design, system construction, and applications 22 Wearable supercapacitors 23 Stretchable supercapacitor 24 Healable supercapacitors

Part Five: Sustainable Supercapacitor 25 Industrial manufacturing of supercapacitors 26 Testing and measurement techniques for supercapacitors 27 Comparison between supercapacitors and other energy storing electrochemical devices 28 Sustainability of current state-of-the-art supercapacitors: a case study 29 Quasi-solid-state electrolytes for pseudocapacitors and batteries

Part Six: Current problems and future development directions of Smart Supercapacitors 30 Commercialization and market for supercapacitor 31 Potential impact of smart-hybrid supercapacitors in novel electronic devices and electric vehicles 32 Future of smart supercapacitors

Authors

M. Basheer Ahamed Professor in the Department of Physics, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr. M. Basheer Ahamed is a professor in the Department of Physics, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He has 33 years of teaching experience to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Engineering and Technology. He has 21 years of research experience in different areas of nanotechnology and Laser Technology. He has published more than 100 research papers in reputed International journals. He has to his credit 35 papers in National and International conferences, 12 book chapters and one book. His current research interests include supercapacitors, polymer nanocomposite materials for energy storage and EMI Shielding applications, nanomaterials, nonlinear optics, laser materials and crystal growth.. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain Adjunct Professor and Director of laboratories, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 150 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas.