Recently International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) has developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly, super capacitor electrode.
It can be used as an energy harvester storage device.
It is derived from industrial waste cotton.
The scientists have converted the industrial cotton waste into porous carbon fibres.
These fibres were used as electrodes.
The Natural seawater is explored as an alternative aqueous electrolyte.
Supercapacitors are next generation energy storage devices.
They have high power density, ultra-charging and long durability as compared to other conventional capacitors and lithium-ion batteries.
The four main components of super capacitors are electrolyte, electrode, separator and current collector.