Cap-xx Limited

Hung Chi Nguyen

Rory Albert James Pynenburg

Calum John Drummond

Phillip Brett Aitchison

Timothy Lawrence Wade

Electrolyte for use in an energy storage device such as a capacitor or supercapacitor which comprises a solvent (preferably propionitrile) and an ionic species (preferably methyltriethylammonium tetrafluoroborate). The electrolytes provide a low ESR rise rate, a high voltage and permit operation over a wide range of temperatures, which makes them beneficial for use in a range of energy storage devices such as digital wireless devices, wireless LAN devices, mobile telephones, computers, electrical or hybrid electrical vehicles.

Electrolyte

The invention relates to energy storage devices such as capacitors and supercapacitors and non-aqueous solvent systems suitable for use as an electrolyte solvent therein. Devices incorporating the solvent system are suitable for use in, for example, wireless devices or automotive applications at high temperatures with minimal, if any mass loss. The solvent system has at least one low boiling component (preferably a nitrile, eg acetonitrile) at least one high boiling component compatible with said low boiling component (preferably lactones, eg &#x3b3;-butyrolactone and/or organic carbonates eg ethylene carbonate or propylene carbonate); and wherein the components are selected in an amount such that said non-aqueous solvent system does not boil at the boiling point of the low viscosity solvent alone but has a boiling point greater than said low viscosity solvent alone.

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