High-performance supercapacitors based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes and nonaqueous electrolytes
- Authors
- Kim, Byungwoo; Chung, Haegeun; Kim, Woong
- Issue Date
- 20-4월-2012
- Publisher
- IOP PUBLISHING LTD
- Citation
- NANOTECHNOLOGY, v.23, no.15
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NANOTECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 23
- Number
- 15
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/108716
- DOI
- 10.1088/0957-4484/23/15/155401
- ISSN
- 0957-4484
- Abstract
- We demonstrate the high performance of supercapacitors fabricated with vertically aligned carbon nanotubes and nonaqueous electrolytes such as ionic liquids and conventional organic electrolytes. Specific capacitance, maximum power and energy density of the supercapacitor measured in ionic liquid were similar to 75 F g(-1), similar to 987 kW kg(-1) and similar to 27 W h kg(-1), respectively. The high power performance was consistently indicated by a fast relaxation time constant of 0.2 s. In addition, electrochemical oxidation of the carbon nanotubes improved the specific capacitance (similar to 158 F g(-1)) and energy density (similar to 53 W h kg(-1)). Both high power and energy density could be attributed to the fast ion transport realized by the alignment of carbon nanotubes and the wide operational voltage defined by the ionic liquid. The demonstrated carbon-nanotube- and nonaqueous-electrolyte-based supercapacitors show great potential for the development of high-performance energy storage devices.
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