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JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 889, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115221
Keywords
Electrical double layer capacitors; Mathematical model; Variable porosity electrode; Energy storage
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- Innovation Program of Shanghai Natural Science FoundationChina [19ZR1422400]
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The distribution of porosity in porous electrodes greatly influences the performance of electric double layer capacitors (EDLC). Compared to electrodes with fixed porosity, EDLCs with porous electrodes featuring stepwise or linear increasing porosity distributions exhibit higher specific capacitance, higher specific energy, and less voltage loss caused by non-uniform electrolyte distribution. The performance of EDLC is closely related to the location of electrolyte accumulation in the electrodes at high discharge current densities.
The variations of porosity in porous electrode influence the performance of electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) greatly. Four kinds of novel porous electrode structure, i.e. linear increasing porosity, linear decreasing porosity, stepwise increasing porosity, stepwise decreasing porosity are applied in the EDLCs. The numerical simulations are conducted to study the effect of porosity distribution in porous electrode on the electrolyte concentration, voltage, specific capacitance and energy in EDLC. In comparison to the electrode with fixed porosity, the higher specific capacitance, higher specific energy and less voltage loss caused by non-uniform electrolyte distribution occur in the EDLC with the porous electrodes in stepwise or linear increasing porosity distributions. The ELDC performance is related to the location of electrolyte accumulation in the electrodes at large discharge current density. The variation amplitude of porosity, whole electrode thickness and initial electrolyte concentration influence the behaviors of EDLC greatly. Thus, the high performance of electric double layer capacitor can be obtained in its porous electrodes with stepwise or linear increasing porosity.
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