Engineering high-power hybrid battery-capacitor systems

Professor Galen Stucky and his team released their results on a new approach to making hybrid battery-capacitor systems using stacked bipolar conducting carbon/polymer pouch cells, faradaic electrolytes, and non metallic current collectors. This approach gives specific energy comparable to that of current commercial lithium batteries, and at the same time generates supercapacitor-specific power or higher. This research will be presented at the 10th International Mesoporous Materials Symposium at UCLA in early September.  This work was initiated in collaboration with Dave Auston in 2012 on the Institute for Energy Efficiency's ARPA-e award.

Abstract - "Redox-Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitors: Electrolyte Design and Device Engineering"