Using polymer templated nanoporous materials to improve performance in electrochemical pseudocapacitors and batteries

This paper discusses two charge storage systems that exploit the unique properties of block copolymer template nanoporous materials. The first case focuses on electrochem. supercapacitors produced by polymer templating of both sol-gel type and nanocrystal building blocks. In the other case, periodic porous materials are employed to improve cycling performance in nanoporous silicon anodes for Li+ batteries