Amperics, Inc., is an advanced supercapacitor company seeking to develop the next generation of energy storage devices. Traditionally, supercapacitors have long been known for their high power, fast charging, and long lifetime, however the limitation of these devices has been their inability to store much energy. Now that has changed. The Company has employed novel composites as electrodes in these devices to form supercapacitors with much greater energy density while also significantly reducing the cost of such devices. The firm's proprietary methodology of molecular scaffolds, exclusively licensed from UCLA, is deployed to produce composite electrodes consisting of carbonaceous, metal oxide, and carbon nanotube materials. Our high performance relative to conventional supercapacitors has been validated by 3rd party testing.
The devices based on surface redox - also called faradaic - reactions (SRR). Amperics is spearheading the development of such devices. SRR leads to a capacitance per surface area significantly higher than double layer capacitance, with more than an order of magnitude increase. At the same time, SRR being a surface reaction offers a (1) fast storage mechanism, thus high power and (2) excellent stability as the electrolyte ions are not inserted into (and removed from) the electrode during the charge (discharge) process. Electrode optimization for high energy and power is accomplished by a composite, this includes high SRR (delivering energy) and high electrical conductivity (delivering power) materials.
