Polysaccharide Based Supercapacitors [Paperback]

This book provides an excellent introduction into polysaccharide-based supercapacitors. It includes fundamental knowledge on supercaps as well as an overview of currently available approaches reported in the literature. Written by an international team of leading academics, this brief is aimed at a variety of readers with an interest in polysaccharide science and its applications.

1.       Introduction

What is a supercapacitor?

How to build a supercapacitor

Materials for supercapacitors

Applications of supercapacitors

2.       Polysaccharides in supercapacitors

Native polysaccharides

Pyrolyzed polysaccharides

3.     Conclusion and Outlook
Stefan Spirk studied chemistry (main focus synthetic inorganic chemistry) at University of Graz where he finished his PhD with Prof. R. Pietschnig. His research is mainly about understanding interfacial processes and how to use this knowledge to realize new applications for polysaccharide based materials such as batteries and transistors for instance. He is author of more than 50 publications, several book chapters and currently holds a Marie Curie Integration Grant and is part of a FET open project.Stefan Freunberger studied chemistry at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. During this time he gained industrial experience in silicon chemistry and semiconductor technology with Wacker Chemistry and Infineon technologies in Germany. For his masters and Ph.D. thesis he moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. The work, under the guidance of Prof. Alexander Wokaun and Felix B?chi was on polymer electrolyte fuel cells.?