Towards more Durable Electrochemical Capacitors by Elucidating the Ageing Mechanisms under Different Testing Procedures.

Electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) commonly denoted supercapacitors are rechargeable energy storage devices with excellent power and energy delivery metrics intermediate to conventional capacitors and batteries. High-voltage aqueous electrolyte based EDLCs are particularly attractive due to their high-power capability, facile production, and environmental advantages. EDLCs should last for thousands of cycles and evaluation of future cell chemistries require long-term and costly galvanostatic cycling.

Large-scale synthesis of monodisperse magnesium ferrite via an environmentally friendly molten salt route.

Sub-micrometer-sized magnesium ferrite spheres consisting of uniform small particles have been prepared using a facile, large-scale solid-state reaction employing a molten salt technique. Extensive structural characterization of the as-prepared samples has been performed using scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, selected area electron diffraction, and X-ray diffraction. The yield of the magnesium ferrite sub-micrometer spheres is up to 90%, and these sub-micrometer spheres are made up of square and rectangular nanosheets.