Highly flexible supercapacitors with manganese oxide nanosheet/carbon cloth electrode

Autor: Ying-Chu Chen, Yu-Kai Lin, Li-Chyong Chen, Yu-Kuei Hsu, Yan-Gu Lin, Ying-Ying Horng, Kuei-Hsien Chen
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Electrochimica Acta. 56:7124-7130
ISSN: 0013-4686
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2011.05.090
Popis: We report a simple and cost-effective synthesis of hierarchically porous structure composed of Birnessite-type manganese dioxide (MnO 2 ) nanosheets on flexible carbon cloth (CC) via anodic electrodeposition technique. Petal-shaped MnO 2 , having sheet thickness of a few nm and typical width of 100 nm, with a strong adhesion on CC is observed. This hierarchically porous MnO 2 –CC hybrid structure dose exhibit not only excellent capacitance properties, such as up to 425 F g −1 in specific capacitance, but also high crack resistance owing to its efficient release of bending stress, as observed by cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charge/discharge measurements under different curvature of bending configurations. Furthermore, flexible supercapacitors based on this kind of MnO 2 nanosheet/CC electrode showed significantly improved stability in capacitive performance over 3000 cycles under the bending test, which is highly promising for future applications in flexible energy storage device.
Databáze: OpenAIRE