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  • Materials Science
  • Electrochemistry
  • Energy Storage

Background:

  • Supercapacitors are crucial energy storage devices.
  • Understanding supercapacitor ageing is vital for reliable performance.
  • Current state of health (SoH) monitoring methods can be invasive or complex.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the ageing mechanisms of supercapacitors under accelerated conditions.
  • To establish a correlation between supercapacitor SoH and mechanical deformation.
  • To develop a non-invasive method for real-time SoH monitoring.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative study of supercapacitor ageing under varied cycling conditions and temperatures.
  • Utilized strain gauges to measure casing deformation during ageing.
  • Applied Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) theory to model capacitance fading.

Main Results:

  • Identified an initial "burning" phase followed by linear ageing in supercapacitors.
  • Demonstrated a direct correlation between capacitance fading, internal resistance, and casing deformation.
  • Validated model predictions of capacitance fading against experimental data.

Conclusions:

  • Mechanical deformation of supercapacitor casings is a reliable indicator of SoH.
  • Strain gauge monitoring provides a practical and non-invasive approach for assessing supercapacitor ageing.
  • Gas adsorption during ageing significantly contributes to performance decline, as suggested by BET modeling.