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We have discovered a huge enhancement of the supercapacity (up to 4 times) under sun illumination of electrodes fabricated from cavitated nanoporous carbon being carbonized from an iodine doped β–cyclodexryn. This effect was achieved even without a frequently used KOH treatment and is caused by enhancement of effective activated surfaces. The synthesized cavitated nanoporous carbon exhibits principally different accumulative features at the carbon/electrolyte interface. Relationship between the porous structure, electronic properties of supramolecular nanoporous carbon and enhanced supercapacitance is explored. The impedance spectroscopy measurements (Nyquist diagram) apparently suggest a capacitance mechanism for the energy accumulation. Enhancement of the supercapacity is explained by light-generated carriers in low-dimensional nano-interfaces in relevant mechanism an increasing concentration of delocalized electrons resulting in unlocking of the Helmholtz layer capacity.

The surface of microporous Norit® GAC 830 W carbon was fluoroalkylated by heating in 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane and 1,1,1,2,2-pentafluoroethane at 400 and 500 °C. Elemental analysis, FTIR ATR spectroscopy, and TG studies showed the presence of ∼0.1–0.7 mmol g−1 of the fluorine-containing groups. Nitrogen adsorption measurements and quenched solid density functional theory simulations proved an increase in the mesoporosity. By combining the results of solid-state 19F NMR and XPS analyses, we determined the functionalization of the carbon surface with CF, CF3, and CF2 fluorine-containing groups. Supercapacitor electrodes prepared from these materials were subjected to the charge-discharge tests and electrical impedance measurements. During galvanostatic cycling in the aqueous 30% KOH, they showed an enhanced charge capacitance compared to the parent (830 W) and the reference (Supra 30) carbons. These observations suggest that the fluoroalkylated surface and the modified microporous structure have an additive effect on capacitance parameters of carbon electrodes studied in symmetric, negative and positive modes. The fluoroalkylation caused an increase in the surface capacitance up to 38%. Herein, we demonstrate the fluoroalkylation is a simple way to increase a capacitance of carbon electrodes.

The dielectric constant and the loss tangent of such nanostructured materials as MCM-41 with encapsulated into its pores, the ferroelectric liquid crystal (LC) or rhodamine 6G and B dyes, as well as the characteristics of the intercalated GaSe by the L-aspartic acid (LAA) are investigated. Influence of microwave irradiation on characteristics of the MCM-41 nanohybrid and impact of illumination along the crystallographic c-axis on the GaSe nanostructure are described.

Impedance spectroscopy studies performed for intercalated multilayer structures of the type of a layered inorganic semiconductor (InSe)/conducting polymer (PEDOT:PSS) revealed low-frequency inductive response and the growth of dielectric permeability in megahertz region together with the decrease of dielectric loss angle down to one as a consequence of the conducting polymer intercalation into semiconducting layers. A model describing the unusual current–voltage characteristic is proposed.

In this work, for the first time, photosensitive nanostructures with alternate semiconductor and magnetic oriented nematic molecular nanolayers were obtained. The established dependency on the ordering type of kinetic and optical properties is deserving attention. For the first time, the notion of ‘rotary’ polaron in such structures is introduced and microscopic model is created, which explains band structure transformation. The model is well coordinated with experimental optical data, which, at the same time, indicate the prospects of application of materials obtained due to the intercalation engineering for photoenergetics.

We report on stable in time organic photovoltaic devices based on metal-phthalocyanine structures, which were formed by vacuum deposition of nickel phthalocyanine (NiPc). The reported stability is due to ultra-thin zinc oxide (ZnO) layer formed at low temperature on top of the structure (beneath the metal contact) by atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique. We performed comparative analysis of current density–voltage characteristics and frequency dependencies of the impedance for freshly made ITO/NiPc/ZnO/Al and ITO/NiPc/Al devices and after storage during one month in air. We conclude that introducing of ultra-thin ZnO film into under-cathode region of ITO/NiPc/Al structure provides long-term protection of NiPc films from atmospheric effects.