Technology Outline (Process Description)

Through the IUCERCE project sponsored by DST at IITH, we have been able to develop many new carbon nanostructures from low cost indigenously available bio-waste (like rice husk, peanut shells, palm kernels etc), and their composites with redox active conducting polymers/metal oxides/ metal chalcogenides/metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and implemented high performance supercapacitors. We have also scaled-up these devices to pouch level cells and we are currently optimizing device configurations to attain performance metrics close to that delivered by the world/market leader in supercapacitors. While the commercial supercapacitors typically use an expensive, highly volatile electrolyte, we have developed stable, non- volatile, low cost gel electrolytes, without compromising the energy storage parameters of the device. Further, we have also developed a plethora of new composites with high performance characteristics and our preparation route for the active materials are easy to execute (allow moderate temperature solution phase processability) and are highly scalable.