Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 2522-2527Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl500255v
Keywords
Polyaniline; polypyrrole; cycling stability; carbonaceous shell; pseudocapacitor
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- UCSC faculty startup funds
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Conducting polymers such as polyaniline and polypyrrole have been widely used as pseudocapacitive electrode materials for supercapacitors. However, their structural instability resulting from repeated volumetric swelling and shrinking during charge/discharge process has been a major hurdle for their practical applications. This work demonstrates a simple and general strategy to substantially enhance the cycling stability of conductive polymer electrodes by deposition of a thin carbonaceous shell onto their surface. Significantly, carbonaceous shell-coated polyaniline and polypyrrole electrodes achieved remarkable capacitance retentions of similar to 95 and similar to 85% after 10 000 cycles. Electron microscopy studies revealed that the presence of similar to 5 nm thick carbonaceous shell can effective prevent the structural breakdown of polymer electrodes during charge/discharge process. Importantly, the polymer electrodes with a similar to 5 nm thick carbonaceous shell exhibited comparable specific capacitance and pseudocapacitive behavior as the bare polymer electrodes. We anticipate that the same strategy can be applied for stabilizing other polymer electrode materials. The capability of fabricating stable polymer electrodes could open up new opportunities for pseudocapacitive devices.
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