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 & Director of Laboratories, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA.

Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Laboratories at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA. His research focuses on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. He is a prolific author and editor for Elsevier, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.