High Throughput Printing of Nanostructured Carbon Electrodes for Supercapacitors

The availability of advanced materials and cost-effective tools for fabrication are essential to the advancement of future sciences and technologies as unprecedented applications will be possible by using nanomaterials. In order to gain rapid progress toward current intriguing challenges, research on existing and new materials has been carried out intensively. Among all, carbon has received tremendous attention since it exhibits many unique structures along with numerous useful properties for a variety of applications, from simple uses for writing or as a coloring agent to a major role in the electrochemical energy storage industry. To date, considerable effort has been devoted to the development of carbon-based electrodes because of its lightweight, high electrical conductivity, stable chemical and electrochemical properties at low cost. [ 1 ] Different carbon allotropes exhibiting high surface-to-volume ratio such as graphene, [ 2 ] reduced graphene oxide, [ 3 ] carbon nanotubes, [ 4 ]

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