Biopolymer composites in supercapacitor and energy storage devices

Energy storage devices have a crucial role in handling energy consumption in various applications like automobiles and electronic devices. Materials used to fabricate these devices, like supercapacitors and batteries, are able to control the efficiency and lifetime of the devices. To achieve maximum efficiency and durability of the devices, the design and combination of different components of these devices are crucial. Although we are able to achieve good performance with synthetic materials, they have several drawbacks due to their synthetic background and environmental issues concerning synthetic methodology as well as processing. Production, utilization, and disposal are usually part and parcel of all kinds of technology and disposal of materials is of great concern because some are harmful to the environment. Biopolymer materials provide solutions to overcome issues produced by synthetic materials due to their availability in nature. In this chapter we discuss the utilization of biopolymer-based devices, which are also able to solve future environmental issues of these technologies.