Electrochemical Supercapacitors: Scientific Fundamentals and Technological ... - B. E. Conway - Google Books

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The first model for the distribution of ions near the surface of a metal electrode was devised by Helmholtz in 1874. He envisaged two parallel sheets of charges of opposite sign located one on the metal surface and the other on the solution side, a few…