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Enhanced Storage Performance of PANI and PANI/Graphene Composites Synthesized in Protic Ionic Liquids

Journal

MATERIALS
Volume 14, Issue 15, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma14154275

Keywords

polyaniline (PANI); supercapacitors; protic ionic liquids (PIL); graphene oxide (GO); nanocomposites; electrode materials

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  1. RESCOLL-French Research Company
  2. Lebanese University

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The combination of PANI with PIL improves morphological, structural, and storage properties of PANI, especially in H2SO4 1 mol·L-1. Optimizing the PANI/GO weight ratio results in the nanocomposite material with the best performance.
Polyaniline (PANI) was synthesized using oxidative polymerization in a mixture of water with pyrrolidinium hydrogen sulfate [Pyrr][HSO4], which is a protic ionic liquid PIL. The obtained PANI (PANI/PIL) was compared with conventional PANI (PANI/HCl and PANI/HSO4) in terms of their morphological, structural, and storage properties. The results demonstrate that the addition of this PIL to a polymerization medium leads to a fiber-like morphology, instead of a spherical-like morphology, of PANI/HSO4 or an agglomerated morphology of PANI/HCl. In addition, PAN/PIL exhibits an improvement of the charge transfer kinetic and storage capability in H2SO4 1 mol center dot L-1, compared to PANI/HCl. The combination of PANI/PIL and graphene oxide (GO), on the other hand, was investigated by optimizing the PANI/GO weight ratio to achieve the nanocomposite material with the best performance. Our results indicate that the PANI/PIL/GO containing 16 wt% of GO material exhibits a high performance and stability (223 F center dot g(-1) at 10 A center dot g(-1) in H2SO4 1 mol center dot L-1, 4.9 Wh center dot Kg(-1), and 3700 W center dot Kg(-1) @ 10 A center dot g(-1)). The obtained results highlight the beneficial role of PIL in building PANI and PANI/GO nanocomposites with excellent performances for supercapacitor applications.

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