Week 09
Week 09
Activated Conductor
Composite
Carbon Polymers
Carbon Metal
Asymmetric
Nanotubes oxides
Carbon Battery
aerogels Type
Graphene
Material Selection Criteria for Supercapacitors
• Electrode materials
• high specific surface area
• long term stability
• high cyclability
• high electrical conductivity
• resistance to reduction and oxidation
• high temperature stability
• Electrolyte materials
• low viscosity
• high ionic conductivity
• chemical stability
Activated Carbon
• Pros
• large specific surface area
• increased charge accumulation
• increased specific capacitance
• Cons
• wide pore size distribution
• reduced connected pores
• sluggish ion transport
• Possible Solution
• Ordered mesoporous carbon
Carbon Nanotubes
• Properties
• chemical stability
• high electrical conductivity
• interconnected mesopores
• Functionalisation
• chemical activation by using KOH
• improved specific capacitance
Graphene
• Properties
• chemical stability
• high electrical conductivity
• high charge carrier mobility
• Functionalisation
• porous graphene oxide
• chemical activation by using KOH
• reduced graphene oxide by thermal exfoliation of graphite
• improved specific capacitance
Conductor Polymers
• Examples
• polyacetylene (PA)
• polypyrrole (PPy)
• polyaniline (PANI)
• poly(3,4-ethylenedioxithiophene (PEDOT)
• Pros
• reversible redox activity
• environmental stability
• facile synthesis
• low cost
• Cons
• volume change during ion intercalation
Metal Oxides
• Examples
• RuO2.H2O
• IrO2.H2O
• MnO2.H2O
• V2O5, NiO, SnO2, Co(OH)2, Ni(OH)2 etc.
• Pros
• reversible redox activity
• possibility of making composites
• Cons
• volume change during ion intercalation
High Energy, High Power Storage
D. Anasori Y. Gogotsi (Eds.). 2D Metal Carbides and Nitrides (Mxenes), Springer, 2019
Manufacturing of MXene Films and Coatings