Fiscal Year	2020
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Energy Academic Group (EAG)
Investigator(s)	Phillips, Jonathan
Sponsor	Headquarters Marine Corps, Installation and Logistics (Marine Corps)
Summary	The objective of the proposed work is to create prototype Novel Paradigm Supercapacitors (NPS Capacitors) with energy density higher than the best batteries. Based on completed, peer reviewed, and published work NPS Capacitors with a small spacing, order of 5 micron, between electrodes, should have unprecedented energy density. Extrapolating middle range, published results, obtained using capacitors with relatively large electrode separation (ca. 50 micron). That is, employing the non-dimensional, engineering, parameter of dielectric constant, measured to be 1010 for 10 minute discharge, indicate an NPS capacitor with 5 micron spacing between electrodes (ca. 5 micron) should have an energy density of 1000 Wh/kg. This energy density is at least 5 X the energy density of commercial Li ion batteries evaluated over a similar discharge time scale. Creating energy storage modalities with energy density far superior to batteries has far reaching military implications including reducing the load of war fighters, reducing the energy storage footprint of forward deployed forces, enabling small foot print rail guns, enabling more powerful laser weapons, improving the performance of the future all electric fleet.
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