Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL
Volume 240, Issue -, Pages 160-166Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2016.01.044
Keywords
Titanium nitride; Supercapacitor; Atomic layer deposition; Electrochemistry; CNT; VACNT
Funding
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [1106400]
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Titanium nitride (TiN) coating on vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) forest electrodes by means of atomic layer deposition (ALD) to store charge in electrochemical supercapacitors has been demonstrated. Experimental results show that after 400 cycles of ALD process, a roughly 20 nm-thick TiN layer is coated uniformly on individual CNTs in the forest electrodes. The electrochemical characterizations show 2000 times higher capacitance of the ALD TiN-CNT device as compared to that of a flat-shape TiN electrode. Furthermore, over 500% enhancement of electrochemical capacitance of the ALD TiN-CNT device (81 mF/cm(2)) as compared to bare CNT forest electrodes (14 mF/cm(2)) has been accomplished due to the increased oxygen vacancies on the TiN surfaces. As such, this work presents a new path to increase energy density of supercapacitors using TiN-based porous electrode materials. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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