Pseudocapacitive Effects of N-Doped Carbon Nanotube Electrodes in Supercapacitors

Materials

Young Soo Yun¹  Hyun Ho Park¹ 

[1]Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Korea

关键词: pseudocapacitance;    supercapacitor;    carbon nanotubes;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ma5071258

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Nitrogen- and micropore-containing carbon nanotubes (NMCNTs) were prepared by carbonization of nitrogen-enriched, polymer-coated carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and the electrochemical performances of the NMCNTs with different heteroatom contents were investigated. NMCNTs-700 containing 9.1 wt% nitrogen atoms had a capacitance of 190.8 F/g, which was much higher than that of pristine CNTs (48.4 F/g), despite the similar surface area of the two CNTs, and was also higher than that of activated CNTs (151.7 F/g) with a surface area of 778 m²/g and a nitrogen atom content of 1.2 wt%. These results showed that pseudocapacitive effects play an important role in the electrochemical performance of supercapacitor electrodes.

【 授权许可】

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