Scientists from Germany have created a supercapacitor that is just 50 nanometres thick and less than 5 millimetres wide. The tiny supercapacitor has been successfully integrated into miniaturised, flexible electronic circuits.
Portable consumer electronics, like mobile phones and cameras, are rapidly advancing to meet the demands of modern society. They are becoming smaller, lighter, thinner, flexible and wearable. A bottleneck to further miniaturisation has been reducing the size and increasing the flexibility of the power supply component of electronic circuits – often a supercapacitor.
Interested to know more? Read the full news article by Rowan Frame in Chemistry World here…
Read the article by W Si et al. in EES:
On chip, all solid-state and flexible micro-supercapacitors with high performance based on MnOx/Au multilayers
Wenping Si, Chenglin Yan, Yao Chen, Steffen Oswald, Luyang Han and Oliver G. Schmidt
Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EE41286E
Wenping Si, Chenglin Yan, Yao Chen, Steffen Oswald, Luyang Han and Oliver G. Schmidt
Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3EE41286E
