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Evaluating the Electrochemical Properties of Supercapacitors using the Three-Electrode System
Published on: January 7, 2022
Size controlled nickel oxide nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes for supercapacitor electrode
Sang Hoon Nam1, Youn-Su Kim, Hee-Sang Shim
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Program for Integrated Molecular Systems (PIMS), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 261 Cheomdan-gwagiro, Gwangju 500-712, South Korea.
Abstract:
We have synthesized supercapacitor electrodes fashioned of NiO(x)/multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), in which the controlled NiO(x) nanoparticles were prepared via a simple colloidal method and supported on the MWNTs. The sizes of the NiO(x) nanoparticles on MWNTs were systematically varied from 4 to 14 nm at a fixed metal loading of 20 wt% by changing sintering temperature in a controlled manner. The maximum specific capacitance of the NiO(x)/MWNTs was measured to be ca. 215 F per unit gram of NiO(x)/MWNTs by cyclic voltammetry (CV) in an aqueous 1 M KOH electrolyte, demonstrating that the specific capacitance of the MWNTs-supported nanosize NiO(x) is strongly dependent on the dispersion and size of the nanoparticles for the supercapacitor performance.
