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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 55, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.7567/JJAP.55.02BD05
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- KMITL Research Fund [KREF045508]
- National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC)
- NSTDA
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand, through its program of the Center of Excellence Network
- Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics (ThEP)
- Office of the Higher Education Commission (OHEC)
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The effects of microwave and oxygen plasma treatments on the capacitive characteristics of a supercapacitor based on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were investigated. MWNTs were heat-treated under air ambient at 500 degrees C for 1 h, and subsequently microwave-treated at 650W for 70 s (m-MWNTs). Another batch of MWNTs was treated by oxygen plasma for 30 min (p-MWNTs). Pristine MWNTs, m-MWNTs, and p-MWNTs were separately used as electrode materials for supercapacitors. Their cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge/discharge, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy results were analyzed. The p-MWNTs show the best performance with a specific capacitance of 238.23 F.g(-1). The capacitance improvement is attributed to the increase in the number of oxygen-containing functional groups, as evidenced by Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy and contact angle measurement. These results suggest that oxygen plasma treatment is a rapid and efficient method for oxygen functionalization. (C) 2016 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
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