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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 929343, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/929343 Research Article Electric Double-Layer Capacitor Fabricated with Addition of Carbon Nanotube to Polarizable Electrode Yoshiyuki Show Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokai University, 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, 259-1292, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Yoshiyuki Show, show@tokai-u.jp Received 13 October 2011; Accepted 18 March 2012 Academic Editor: Sulin Zhang Copyright © 2012 Yoshiyuki Show. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Electrical double-layer capacitor (EDLC) was fabricated with addition of carbon nanotube (CNT) to polarization electrodes as a conducting material. The CNT addition reduced the series resistance of the EDLC by one-twentieth, while the capacitance was not increased by the CNT addition. The low series resistance leaded to the high electrical energy stored in the EDLC. In this paper, the dependence of the series resistance, the specific capacitance, the energy, and the energy efficiencies on the CNT addition is discussed. 1. Introduction The capacitance of the EDLC is theoretically propor- tional to surface area (S) of polarizable electrodes, as based Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), supercapacitors, on the following equation: or ultracapacitors have the same type of electrical energy storage device, which is based on a double electric charge