Nanoscale origins of super-capacitance phenomena

We review the origins of capacitive phenomena at the nanoscale to demonstrate that electrochemistry cannot be understood without a critical re-reading of nanoscale electronics, and vice-versa. The fundamentals are stated at a mesoscopic physical level at which both classical and quantum mechanical terms are important to the explanation of different capacitive contributions. At this mesoscopic physical scale, a quantum mechanical Hamiltonian can...