Rational design of coaxial mesoporous birnessite manganese dioxide/amorphous-carbon nanotubes arrays for advanced asymmetric supercapacitors
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Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research CenterDate
2015-03Permanent link to this record
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Coaxial mesoporous MnO2/amorphous-carbon nanotubes have been synthesized via a facile and cost-effective strategy at room temperature. The coaxial double nanotubes of inner (outer) MnO2 and outer (inner) amorphous carbon can be obtained via fine tuning the preparative factors (e.g., deposition order and processing temperature). Furthermore, the electrochemical properties of the coaxial nanotubes were evaluated by cycle voltammetric (CV) and galvanostatic charge-discharge (GC) measurements. The as-prepared coaxial double nanotubes of outer MnO2 and inner amorphous carbon exhibit the optimized pseudocapacitance performance (362 F g-1) with good cycling stability, and ideal rate capability owning to the unique nanostructures. When assembled into two-electrode asymmetric supercapacitor, an energy density of 22.56 W h kg-1 at a power density of 224.9 W kg-1 is obtained. These findings provide a new and facile approach to fabricate high-performance electrode for supercapacitors.Citation
Zhu, S. J., Zhang, J., Ma, J. J., Zhang, Y. X., & Yao, K. X. (2015). Rational design of coaxial mesoporous birnessite manganese dioxide/amorphous-carbon nanotubes arrays for advanced asymmetric supercapacitors. Journal of Power Sources, 278, 555–561. doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.12.054Sponsors
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial supports provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 51104194 and 51104121), National Key laboratory of Fundamental Science of Micro/Nano-device and System Technology (2013MS06, Chongqing University), State Education Ministry and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Project no. CDJZR14135501 and CDJZR13130035, Chongqing University, PR China). The authors acknowledge support on materials characterization by Dr. Gang Li in Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research, Xi'an 710016, PR China.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Journal of Power Sourcesae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.12.054