Performance of thermally-chargeable supercapacitors in different solvents.
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The influence of solvent on the temperature sensitivity of the electrode potential of thermally-chargeable supercapacitors (TCSs) is investigated. For large electrodes, the output voltage is positively correlated with the dielectric constant of solvent. When nanoporous carbon electrodes are used, different characteristics of system performance are observed, suggesting that possible size effects must be taken into consideration when the solvent molecules and solvated ions are confined in a nanoenvironment.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
دوره 16 25 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014