compartments, namely, (i) energy harvesting and (ii) energy storage in which the former generates the energy while the latter is used to store the generated energy. [6,7] Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydropower, mechanical energy (piezoelectric/triboelectric nanogenerator), and electrochemical energy (fuel cells) are used as energy harvesting system, whereas batteries and supercapacitors are used as energy storing system in the design of selfcharging power system. [8][9][10][11][12] Renewable power source based self-charging power system such as coupling of the solar cell/ photovoltaics with the electrochemical energy storage are commercialized for making use of the photon energy into useful energy. [13,14] Hitherto, the utilization of biomechanical energy for the selfcharging system is still in research level, and further efforts are needed to be undertaken for practical applications. The concept of self-charging and/or self-powered system for harvesting and storing mechanical and/or biomechanical energy becomes plausible after the research findings of Wang and co-workers for the first time when they designed a self-powered system using nanogenerator (NG) and supercapacitor in 2012. [2] Up to date two different types of self-charging power cells have been reported such as (i) external powering and (ii) internally integrating the system. [8,[15][16][17] In the former case, the mechanical energy harvester is externally connected to the energy storage device using a rectifier, whereas the latter uses an all-in-one integrated system which will be beneficial for several applications in portable and wearable devices due to their miniaturized size. [18,19] The pulsating alternating current output of nanogenerator is the major concern for the practical application of NG based self-charging power cells (SCPCs) due to their low energy conversion efficiency. [7,20] Therefore, the design and development of high-performance self-charging power cell with high energy conversion efficiency are highly essential. In this scenario, integrated self-charging supercapacitor power cell (SCSPC) utilizing supercapacitor as energy storage device attracts much attention compared to batteries mainly due to the fast charging rates of a capacitive type electrode; it can scavenge/store the piezo-electrochemically generated Self-charging supercapacitor power cell (SCSPC) received much attention for harvesting and storing energy in an integrated device, which paves the way for developing maintenance free autonomous power systems for various electronic devices. In this work, a new type of SCSPC device is fabricated comprising 2D molybdenum di-selenide (MoSe 2 ) as an energy storing electrode with polyvinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene/ tetraethylammonium tetrafluoroborate (PVDF-co-HFP/TEABF 4 ) ion gelled polyvinylidene fluoride/sodium niobate (PVDF/NaNbO 3 ) as the piezopolymer electrolyte. The fabricated SCSPC delivers a specific capacitance of 18.93 mF cm −2 with a specific energy of 37.90 mJ cm −2 at a specific power...

A novel SCSPC device comprising two-dimensional graphene sheets as electrodes for energy storage and porous PVDF incorporated TEABF4 electrolyte as a solid-like piezo-polymer separator.

The development of high‐performance electrodes that increase the energy density of supercapacitors (SCs) (without compromising their power density) and have a wide temperature tolerance is crucial for the application of SCs in electric vehicles. Recent research has focused on the preparation of multicomponent materials to form electrodes with enhanced electrochemical properties. Herein, a siloxene–graphene (rGO) heterostructure electrode‐based symmetric SC (SSC) is designed that delivers a high energy density (55.79 Wh kg−1) and maximum power density of 15 000 W kg−1. The fabricated siloxene–rGO SSC can operate over a wide temperature range from –15 to 80 °C, which makes them suitable for applications in automobiles. This study shows the practical applicability of siloxene–rGO SSC to drive an electric car as well as to capture the braking energy in a regenerative brake‐electric vehicle prototype. This work opens new directions for evaluating the use of siloxene–rGO SSC as suitable energy devices in electric vehicles.

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