High-voltage devices
AssigneeThe Regents of the University of California
InventorsRichard Barry Kaner, Maher F. El-Kady
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides supercapacitors that may avoid the shortcomings of current energy storage technology. Provided herein are supercapacitor devices, and methods of fabrication thereof comprising the manufacture or synthesis of an active material on a current collector and/or the manufacture of supercapacitor electrodes to form planar and stacked arrays of supercapacitor electrodes and devices. Prototype supercapacitors disclosed herein may exhibit improved performance compared to commercial supercapacitors. Additionally, the present disclosure provides a simple, yet versatile technique for the fabrication of supercapacitors through masking and etching.
Claims20
An energy storage device comprising:
- an array of electrodes, wherein each electrode comprises
- a current collector;
- and
- an active material directly on a portion of a first surface of the current collector, wherein the active material comprises two or more expanded and interconnected carbon layers, wherein at least one of the carbon layers is corrugated and one atom thick.
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