What lies ahead

Our supercap expert John Miller takes the opportunity of the first issue of the year to look ahead to what's coming next in this US$1billion dollar market.

It has been more than fifty years since the first practical demonstration of an electric double-layer capacitor performing physical work. In the summer of 1962 the Standard Oil of Ohio (SOHIO) team fabricated a three‑cell activated carbon, aqueous electrolyte, electric double capacitor, said to have been the size of a large car battery, that they connected to an electric trolling motor mounted on a canoe. The . . .