1 State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun 130022, China. hongyuwang@ciac.jl.cn
Ethylene carbonate molecules in electrolyte solutions can bind tightly with PF(6)(-) anions, and prevent the intercalation of these anions into the interlayer spaces of graphite positive electrodes in activated carbon/graphite capacitors.