Rani, PinkiJewariya, YogeshHaldar, Krishna KantaBiswas, RathindranathAlegaonkar, Prashant S.2024-01-212024-08-132024-01-212024-08-132023-01-07957452210.1007/s10854-022-09414-zhttp://10.2.3.109/handle/32116/3265Materials with synergistic functionality are of great importance in consumer electronics. We report on the preparation and assessments of Te @ PANI composite for energy conversion and storage application. Initially, (5�15%) Te @ PANI composites were synthesized by the facile, room temperature, time and cost-effective solid-state synthesis technique followed by characterizations using Fourier transform infra-red, UV-Visible, energy dispersive spectroscopic including X-ray diffractometry and field electron scanning microscopy. Te exfoliates polymeric segments of PANI by bonding benzenoid rings through sulphonated impurity sites which have a profound impact on symmetry molecular bond vibrations. Its analysis is presented. In photophysical application, both dark and luminescent I-V measurements have been performed that showed a linear variation with minimum photo-resistance offered by 10% composite and reaching current > 10�mA under 1.5�V biased conditions. In storage response, Te @ PANI supercapacitor devices are dominating in inductive coupling over capacitive coupling by ten times. Corresponding shunt impedance is seen to be favourably lower for 10% composition, and respective charge transfer impedance has also followed identical behaviour over other classes of samples. The quality factor of the device for 10% is found to be almost twelve times better. However, at a low scan rate (10�mV/s), the presence of Te has changed the tendency of ion migration, thereby, reducing the magnitude of ion current by about three times with an increase in Te from 5 to 15%. Thus, fabricated composite demonstrated synergistic aspects of energy. � 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.en-USCharge transferCost effectivenessElectromagnetic inductionEnergy harvestingTelluriumTellurium compoundsCost effectiveElectrochemical responseEnergy conversion and storagesFourier transform infraredPANI compositesPhotophysicalSolid-state synthesisSynthesis techniquesSynthesisedUV-visibleX ray diffraction analysisArticlehttps://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10854-022-09414-z