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Electrode Materials for Supercapacitors Synthesized By Sol–Gel Process


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This review article on synthesis of various carbonaceous and transition metal oxide based supercapacitor electrode materials and their electrochemical performance shows that though a potential method, the sol–gel process needs to be extensively explored and practiced on a large extent. The carbonaceous materials possess high electrochemical stabilities but they demonstrate lower capacitance compared to the ruthenium-based materials. Overall excellence in electrochemical behaviour was exhibited by a binary metal oxide NiCoO4 in thin film form with a value of 2157 F/g.

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Specific Capacitance, Sol–Gel Process, Supercapacitor Materials.
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Sunetra Dhere
Shri S.H. Kelkar College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Devgad, Sindhudurg - 416 613, India

Abstract


This review article on synthesis of various carbonaceous and transition metal oxide based supercapacitor electrode materials and their electrochemical performance shows that though a potential method, the sol–gel process needs to be extensively explored and practiced on a large extent. The carbonaceous materials possess high electrochemical stabilities but they demonstrate lower capacitance compared to the ruthenium-based materials. Overall excellence in electrochemical behaviour was exhibited by a binary metal oxide NiCoO4 in thin film form with a value of 2157 F/g.

Keywords


Specific Capacitance, Sol–Gel Process, Supercapacitor Materials.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv115%2Fi3%2F436-449