Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of the Capacitive Performance of a Binary Mixture of Ionic Liquids near an
Song Li1, Guang Feng1, Pasquale F Fulvio2
1†Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States.
Abstract:
An equimolar mixture of 1-methyl-1-propylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([C3mpy][Tf2N]), 1-methyl-1-butylpiperidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([C4mpip][Tf2N]) was investigated by classic molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements verified that the binary mixture exhibited lower glass transition temperature than either of the pure room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). Moreover, the binary mixture gave rise to higher conductivity than the neat RTILs at lower temperature range. In order to study its capacitive performance in supercapacitors, simulations were performed of the mixture, and the neat RTILs used as electrolytes near an onion-like carbon (OLC) electrode at varying temperatures. The differential capacitance exhibited independence of the electrical potential applied for three electrolytes, which is in agreement with previous work on OLC electrodes in a different RTILs. Positive temperature dependence of the differential capacitance was observed, and it was dominated by the electrical double layer (EDL) thickness, which is for the first time substantiated in MD simulation.
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