Journal
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 302, Issue -, Pages 38-44Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.02.004
Keywords
Supercapacitor; Coarse-grained carbon; Thick electrode; High areal capacitance; Activated carbon; And carbide derived carbon
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Funding
- Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures & Transport Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center - US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Thousand Talents program (China) [WQ20142200205, WQ 20152200273]
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Increasing the mass loading of active material in a supercapacitor electrode improves the energy storage capability per electrode area. However, the increase of mass loading is accompanied by the increased electrode thickness, which often causes drops in specific capacitance and counteracts the potential increase in areal capacitance once the electrode thickness exceeds 100 mu m. In our previous work, we showed high specific capacitance retention of coarse-grained carbide derived carbon (CDC) with electrode thicknesses up to 1000 mu m in organic electrolytes. In this work, we report that this behavior can be extended to coarse-grained activated carbon (AC). AC is the most common commercial supercapacitor electrode material with a much broader pore size distribution and lower electric conductivity compared to CDC. The areal capacitance of the AC electrode is enhanced from 2.3 F/cm(2) to 7.4 F/cm(2) at 5 mV/s, as the electrode thickness increases from 200 to 800 mu m. With the increased mass loading of the active electrode material, the mass and volume occupied by current collectors and separators are reduced in the electrode stack, which leads to an increase of the gravimetric and volumetric energy density of the device. By reporting on this advantageous behavior in thick electrodes using coarse-grained carbons, we hope to garner interest toward an unexplored method for improving the performance of porous carbon-based supercapacitors, without increasing the cost or changing the current used supercapacitor manufacturing process. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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