Studies of Supercapacitor Carbon Electrodes with High Pseudocapacitance

Abstract

During the last decades different new capacitor types were developed based on electrochemical processes. According to Conway [1] an electrochemical capacitor is a device in which different quasi-reversible electrochemical charging/discharging processes take place and for which the shape of the charging and discharging curves is almost linear, similarily to those in common electrostatic capacitors [1-13]. Electrochemical capacitors can be classified as film-type (dielectric), electrolytic and supercapacitors.