Hierarchical cellulose-derived carbon nanocomposites for electrostatic energy storage
Paper i proceeding, 2015

The problem of energy storage and its continuous delivery on demand needs new effective solutions. Supercapacitors are viewed as essential devices for solving this problem since they can quickly provide high power basically countless number of times. The performance of supercapacitors is mostly dependent on the properties of electrode materials used for electrostatic charge accumulation, i.e. energy storage. This study presents new sustainable cellulose-derived materials that can be used as electrodes for supercapacitors. Nanofibrous carbon nanofiber (CNF) mats were covered with vapor-grown carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in order to get composite CNF/CNT electrode material. The resulting composite material had significantly higher surface area and was much more conductive than pure CNF material. The performance of the CNF/CNT electrodes was evaluated by various analysis methods such as cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge-discharge, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and cyclic stability. The results showed that the cellulose-derived composite electrodes have fairly high values of specific capacitance and power density and can retain excellent performance over at least 2 000 cycles. Therefore it can be stated that sustainable cellulose-derived CNF/CNT composites are prospective materials for supercapacitor electrodes.

nanofibers

graphene

nanotube

activated carbon

supercapacitors

Författare

Volodymyr Kuzmenko

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Elektronikmaterial

Muhammad Amin

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Elektronikmaterial

Arun Bhaskar

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Elektronikmaterial

Henrik Staaf

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Elektronikmaterial

Vincent Desmaris

Chalmers, Rymd- och geovetenskap, Avancerad mottagarutveckling

Smoltek AB

Peter Enoksson

Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC)

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Elektronikmaterial

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

17426588 (ISSN) 17426596 (eISSN)

Vol. 660 1 Art. no. 012062- 012062

Styrkeområden

Nanovetenskap och nanoteknik

Transport

Produktion

Energi

Ämneskategorier

Nanoteknik

Energisystem

DOI

10.1088/1742-6596/660/1/012062

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