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07 Mar 07:39

Supercapacitors: Potential-Induced Electronic Structure Changes in Supercapacitor Electrodes Observed by In Operando Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy (Adv. Mater. 9/2015)

by Michael Bagge-Hansen, Brandon C. Wood, Tadashi Ogitsu, Trevor M. Willey, Ich C. Tran, Arne Wittstock, Monika M. Biener, Matthew D. Merrill, Marcus A. Worsley, Minoru Otani, Cheng-Hao Chuang, David Prendergast, Jinghua Guo, Theodore F. Baumann, Tony van Buuren, Jürgen Biener, Jonathan R. I. Lee
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Profound bias- and time-dependent changes in the electronic structure of graphene-based supercapacitor electrodes are demonstrated under operating conditions via a combination of in operando X-ray spectroscopy and ab initio modeling by J. R. I. Lee and co-workers on page 1512. The evolution in electronic structure reflects changes in the surface chemistry and morphology induced by polarization of the electrode-electrolyte interface and points to distinct pseudocapacitive and electric-double-layer capacitive channels for charge storage.