SBIR Phase I:Developing Advanced Ultracapacitors Using Carbon Nanomaterials & Environmentally Friendly Electrolytes

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目旨在为混合动力电动汽车(HEV)开发先进的超级电容器。这项拟议的研究将证明在离子液体中实现定向碳纳米管高容量的可行性，并使用优化的碳纳米管和离子液体来开发具有优于现有超级电容器的性能和循环寿命的超级电容器。到2009年，全球超级电容器市场预计将达到1.813亿美元。先进的车用超级电容器在实现更好的燃油经济性、减少有害排放以及减少我国对外国石油来源的依赖方面非常有用。除了超级电容器，拟议项目的研究还将对碳纳米材料在其他电子和电化学设备中的应用产生广泛影响。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aimes to develop advanced ultracapacitors for hybrid electrical vehicles (HEVs). The proposed research will demonstrate the feasibility of achieving high capacitance for aligned CNTs in ionic liquids and using optimized CNTs and ionic liquid to develop ultracapacitors possessing superior performance and cycle-life exceeding those of currently available ultracapacitors. The world ultracapacitor market is expected to reach $181.3 million by 2009. Advanced vehicular ultracapacitors are extremely useful in achieving better fuel economy, decreasing harmful emissions, and reducing our nation's reliance on foreign sources of petroleum. In addition to ultracapacitors, research in the proposed project will also have a broad impact on the applications of carbon nanomaterials to other electronic and electrochemical devices.