With
the development of advanced electronic devices and electric
power systems, polymer-based dielectric film capacitors with high
energy storage capability have become particularly important. Compared
with polymer nanocomposites with widespread attention, all-organic
polymers are fundamental and have been proven to be more effective
choices in the process of scalable, continuous, and large-scale industrial
production, leading to many dielectric and energy storage applications.
In the past decade, efforts have intensified in this field with great
progress in newly discovered dielectric polymers, fundamental production
technologies, and extension toward emerging computational strategies.
This review summarizes the recent progress in the field of energy
storage based on conventional as well as heat-resistant all-organic
polymer materials with the focus on strategies to enhance the dielectric
properties and energy storage performances. The key parameters of
all-organic polymers, such as dielectric constant, dielectric loss,
breakdown strength, energy density, and charge–discharge efficiency,
have been thoroughly studied. In addition, the applications of computer-aided
calculation including density functional theory, machine learning,
and materials genome in rational design and performance prediction
of polymer dielectrics are reviewed in detail. Based on a comprehensive
understanding of recent developments, guidelines and prospects for
the future development of all-organic polymer materials with dielectric
and energy storage applications are proposed.