Capacitor devices for rapid charge/discharge storage

— R&D strategies of electrode materials for high performance capacitor devices —

Abstract

Energy storage devices now require rapid charge/discharge performance, not only high storage capacity for convenient and energy efficient devices. Research and development of rapid charge/discharge storage devices are carried out in an interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology and device manufacturing, where the scope of research is very different in size and scale. This R&D is an interesting subject from the viewpoint of synthesiology, because the keys to device manufacturing are selection and combination of element technologies. In this paper, approaches and methods employed in the R&D of high performance capacitors are introduced from the discovery of innovative materials to device manufacturing, by citing examples carried out in research projects under industry-academia-government collaboration.