Diamond, Carbon and Advanced Energy Materials

Carbon materials touch every aspect of our lifestyle in how. Regarding today's environmental challenges carbon could also be the key elemental component, usually blended into notations like “carbon cycle” or “carbon footprint”. Interestingly, not getting used as “fossil fuel”, carbon materials also considerably contribute to the sector of sustainable energy. they're central in most electrochemical energy-related applications, i.e. they also help to get, store, transport, and save energy. Nanostructured carbon is already utilized in fuel cells, conventional batteries, and supercapacitors. Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLC, also called supercapacitors) are energy storage devices that supported the electrical adsorption of ions at the electrode/electrolyte interface (non-Faradaic process). Porous carbons are getting used widely as electrode materials for supercapacitors due to their high specific area and comparatively good electrical conductivity.