Front Cover: Carbon Transition‐metal Oxide Electrodes: Understanding the Role of Surface Engineering for High Energy Density Supercapacitors (Chem. Asian J. 11/2020).
Front Cover: Carbon Transition-metal Oxide Electrodes: Understanding the Role of Surface Engineering for High Energy Density Supercapacitors (Chem. Keywords: Supercapacitor; carbon; transition metal oxide; interface; dual energy storage mechanism EN Supercapacitor carbon transition metal oxide interface dual energy storage mechanism 1627 1627 1 06/04/20 20200602 NES 200602 B Supercapacitors store electrical energy b by ion adsorption at the electrode-electrolyte interface or in a Faradaic process involving the direct transfer of electrons via oxidation/reduction reactions at one electrode to the other (pseudocapacitance). Herein, recent advances in carbon-transition metal oxide (C-TMO) hybrid materials that show great promise as an efficient electrode towards supercapacitors among various material types are summarized.