Electronic – essential to make a super capacitor

supercapacitor

Assume I have two 5×5 cm aluminum foil sheets and activated carbon powder and a normal A4 paper. If I dissolve the activated carbon powder in water to get something like a paint and painted the aluminum foils with it and let it to dry then placed the paper between the two aluminum foils will I get a super capacitor? is there anything else required? is the electrolyte essential? I saw youtube videos all using graphene electrodes and chemical electrolyte that I can't get. So what's the simplest form of super capacitor that I can make?

Best Answer

There are a number of articles on the Net describing a DIY approach to making supercaps. None of them come anywhere near the capability of commercial devices. Here is one of them based on DIY graphene