Supercapacitor Consisting of a Form Core Sandwich with Woven Carbon Fiber Skin

Akira Todoroki¹, Tomohiro Sawada², Yoshihiro Mizutani¹, Yoshiro Suzuki¹

¹Department of Mechanical Sciences of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
²Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/ojcm.2015.54013                

Abstract

Structural capacitors are composite structures that function as energy storage capacitors. Parallel plate-type capacitors have the advantage of high voltage resistance, but are limited by low capacitance. An electric double-layer capacitor with a composite structure using a solid polymer electrolyte matrix with a glass fiber fabric separator has recently been developed. However, the solid polymer electrolyte caused the capacitor to possess high internal resistance. In the present study, a new design of supercapacitor using a form core sandwich with high water retention is proposed and experimentally investigated. Activated carbon sheets are used as electrodes on the form core sandwich to make a supercapacitor. Woven carbon fabric is used as lead wires of the supercapacitor. The resulting supercapacitor displays a low surface resistance of 810 Ωcm² and high areal capacitance of 520 mF/cm².

Keywords

Composites, Woven Carbon Fabric, Capacitor, Supercapacitor, Sandwich, Form Core

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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