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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 53, Issue 2, Pages 525-537Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2007.07.004
Keywords
electro-deposition; composite; carbon nanotubes; conducting polymers; supercapacitors
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/R68078/02, GR/R68078/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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Composite films of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with polyaniline (PANI), polypyrrole (PPY) or poly [3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene] (PEDOT) were prepared via electrochemical co-deposition from solutions containing acid treated CNTs and the corresponding monomer. In the cases of PPY and PEDOT, CNTs served as the charge carriers during electro-deposition, and also acted as both the backbone of a three-dimensional micro- and nano-porous structure and the effective charge-balancing dopant within the polymer. All the composites showed improved mechanical integrity, higher electronic and ionic conductivity (even when the polymer was reduced), and exhibited larger electrode specific capacitance than the polymer alone. Under similar conditions, the capacitance was enhanced significantly in as-prepared PPY-CNT and PEDOT-CNT films. However, the fresh PANI-CNT film was electrochemically similar to PANI, but PPY-CNT and PEDOT-CNT differed noticeably from the respective polymers alone. In continuous potential cycling tests, unlike the pure polymer and other composite films, PANI-CNT performed much better in retaining the capacitance of the as-prepared film, and the possible cause is analysed. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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