Electrochemical Capacitors and Photovoltaic Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "C：Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 1118
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of novel materials intended to be incorporated into electrochemical capacitors and supercapacitors has represented a subject of intense research in recent years. Carbon materials and their composites with metal oxides have been shown to boost double layer capacitance and related properties. Moreover, the pseudocapacitance phenomenology appears to be intimately related to redox processes coming from short-termed reactions in which the electrolyte and the surface phenomena are involved. As a further key factor playing a role in electrochemical capacitors and supercapacitors, quantum capacitance emerges as an intrinsic property that could be definitive to model the energy storage properties of such systems.
In this direction, photovoltaic devices comprise a wide variety of materials in which ternary and quaternary alloys have played a fundamental role in their development. DSSC and perovskites have ultimately represented an alternative for the same purpose. Particularly, the present issue aims to gather outstanding cutting-edge research on electrode materials applied in the fabrication of supercapacitors and help towards a deeper understanding of pseudocapacitance properties. Related works with the incorporation of such materials into a solar cell device, such as a photo-supercapacitor, are also invited. This issue invites both theoretical (ab initio, molecular dynamics and others) and experimental approaches, as well as studies in which both perspectives are combined.
Dr. Jesús Muñiz-Soria
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- supercapacitors
- pseudocapacitance
- photo-supercapacitors
- electron transport at interfaces
- ab initio calculations applied to energy conversion and storage
- molecular dynamics simulations
