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by firefoxman1 4830 days ago
I'm right there with you. I've been looking around to see more details on the process. Besides getting ahold of the materials, i think the most difficult part would be taking a graphene sheet and actually making it a supercapacitor. I think it requires layering it between some sort of electrolyte sheets right?
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The supercapacitor they created is planar, you don't need to layer multiple sheets, you just need to print it then deposit the gel-like electrolyte and put it together with some copper tape and klapton tape. It's written/explained in their paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6074/1326.abstract
Yes, sounds right. Quoting from the paper cited above "Thus, a device can be readily made by sandwiching an ion porous separator [Celgard 3501 (Celgard, Charlotte, NC)] between two identical LSG electrodes."
But the gel seperator they used was the standard industrial seperator gel for sCaps...there was a video on this, but it's too late tonight, i'll look for it tomorrow.