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HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMERS
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 637-640Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0954008314542168
Keywords
Polymer electrolyte; poly(epsilon-caprolactone); electrical double layer capacitor
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- University of Malaya [RP003-13AFR]
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The potential of electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) fabricated from symmetry activated carbon electrodes and poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL)-based polymer electrolytes (PE) have been studied. PEs that consisted of PCL, ammonium thiocyanate, and ethylene carbonate (EC) were prepared by solution casting. In this system, EC was added as a plasticizing solvent to improve the conductivity. The room temperature ionic conductivity of PE increased from 3.94 x 10(-7) S cm(-1) to 3.8 x 10(-5) S cm(-1) at 50 wt% EC. In the structural studies carried out by X-ray diffraction, it was found that addition of EC reduces the degree of crystallinity of the entire system. Temperature-dependent conductivity studies showed that Vogel-Tamman-Fulcher model fits very well with regression value close to unity. This observation demonstrates a close coupling between the ionic motion and the polymer segment mobility. The preliminary result of EDLC cell was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry. The single-electrode specific capacitance of EDLC is obtained to be 42.4 F g(-1).
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