Luminous has developed advanced activated carbons for energy storage and continues to develop products offering improved electrochemical performance.

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Activated carbon is the preferred electrode material in ultracapacitors, asymmetric batteries and a variety of advanced batteries because of its exceptionally high surface area and high purity, which can be directly related to performance in this application. Kuraray’s YP product series is the industry standard for ultracapacitors as a result of decades of experience in terms of starting material selection and specialized manufacturing.

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Ultracapacitors – high capacitance energy storage devices. The storage mechanism for ultracapacitors is primarily physical in nature, where electrons are stored on the surface of the activated carbon and rapidly charged/discharged. Impurities on the carbon can negatively impact performance through irreversible capacitance loss, thus raw material selection and additional processing is critical to producing high performing products.