Theory and simulations of ionic liquids in nanoconfinement

S Kondrat, G Feng, F Bresme, M Urbakh… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have exciting properties such as nonvolatility, large
electrochemical windows, and remarkable variety, drawing much interest in energy storage …

Understanding electrochemical capacitors with in-situ techniques

B Pal, A Yasin, R Kaur, M Tebyetekerwa… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the charge (energy) storage process in electrochemical capacitors (ECs) is
crucial for continuous performance enhancement of the billion-dollar charge storage …

First-principles study of alkali-metal intercalation in disordered carbon anode materials

JX Huang, G Csányi, JB Zhao, J Cheng… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphite and non-graphitising (“hard”) carbons are important anode materials for battery
technologies. The electrochemical intercalation of alkali metals in graphite has been widely …

Recent progress in carbon-based nanoarchitectures for advanced supercapacitors

F Ran, X Yang, L Shao - Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, 2018 - Springer
Supercapacitors, possessing high power densities, have been supposed to be one of the
promising energy storage devices. Among various electrode materials of supercapacitors …

Towards an atomistic understanding of disordered carbon electrode materials

VL Deringer, C Merlet, Y Hu, TH Lee… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Disordered nanoporous and “hard” carbons are widely used in batteries and
supercapacitors, but their atomic structures are poorly determined. Here, we combine …

Design of supercapacitor electrodes using molecular dynamics simulations

Z Bo, C Li, H Yang, K Ostrikov, J Yan, K Cen - Nano-micro letters, 2018 - Springer
Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) are advanced electrochemical devices for energy
storage and have attracted strong interest due to their outstanding properties. Rational …

Origin of enhanced performance in nanoporous electrical double layer capacitors: insights on micropore structure and electrolyte composition from molecular …

B Uralcan, IB Uralcan - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022 - ACS Publications
We explore the effect of solvation and micropore structure on the energy storage
performance of electrical double layer capacitors using constant potential molecular …

Formation and topological structure of three-dimensional disordered graphene networks

YC Wang, YB Zhu, HA Wu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Disordered graphene networks (DGNs) can be regarded as the three-dimensional (3D)
assembly of graphene-like fragments at the nanoscale, in which some intrinsic topological …

Carbide-derived carbons for dense and tunable 3D graphene networks

C de Tomas, I Suarez-Martinez, NA Marks - Applied Physics Letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The mechanical properties of carbide-derived carbons (CDCs) are computed using
molecular dynamics simulations, spanning the experimental density range and synthesis …

An atomistic carbide-derived carbon model generated using reaxff-based quenched molecular dynamics

MW Thompson, B Dyatkin, HW Wang, CH Turner… - C, 2017 - mdpi.com
We report a novel atomistic model of carbide-derived carbons (CDCs), which are
nanoporous carbons with high specific surface areas, synthesis-dependent degrees of …