Symmetrical MnO2-carbon nanotube-textile nanostructures for wearable pseudocapacitors with high mass loading
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Hu, LiangbingChen, Wei
Xie, Xing
Liu, Nian
Yang, Yuan
Wu, Hui
Yao, Yan
Pasta, Mauro
Alshareef, Husam N.

Cui, Yi

KAUST Department
Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research CenterFunctional Nanomaterials and Devices Research Group
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
KAUST Grant Number
KUS-11-001-12Date
2011-10-13Online Publication Date
2011-10-13Print Publication Date
2011-11-22Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/561928
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While MnO2 is a promising material for pseudocapacitor applications due to its high specific capacity and low cost, MnO2 electrodes suffer from their low electrical and ionic conductivities. In this article, we report a structure where MnO2 nanoflowers were conformally electrodeposited onto carbon nanotube (CNT)-enabled conductive textile fibers. Such nanostructures effectively decrease the ion diffusion and charge transport resistance in the electrode. For a given areal mass loading, the thickness of MnO2 on conductive textile fibers is much smaller than that on a flat metal substrate. Such a porous structure also allows a large mass loading, up to 8.3 mg/cm2, which leads to a high areal capacitance of 2.8 F/cm2 at a scan rate of 0.05 mV/s. Full cells were demonstrated, where the MnO2-CNT-textile was used as a positive electrode, reduced MnO2-CNT-textile as a negative electrode, and 0.5 M Na2SO4 in water as the electrolyte. The resulting pseudocapacitor shows promising results as a low-cost energy storage solution and an attractive wearable power. © 2011 American Chemical Society.Citation
Hu, L., Chen, W., Xie, X., Liu, N., Yang, Y., Wu, H., … Cui, Y. (2011). Symmetrical MnO2–Carbon Nanotube–Textile Nanostructures for Wearable Pseudocapacitors with High Mass Loading. ACS Nano, 5(11), 8904–8913. doi:10.1021/nn203085jSponsors
We thank Dr. Judy Cha for her helpful discussion and assistance in some sample characterizations. W.C. thanks the support from a KAUST Graduate Fellowship. X.X. acknowledges the support from the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. Y.C. acknowledges the funding support from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Investigator Award (No. KUS-11-001-12).Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Journal
ACS Nanoae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/nn203085j