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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 55, Issue 25, Pages 7447-7453Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2010.01.078
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Manganese oxides; Carbon nanotubes; Stacked supercapacitors; Bipolar electrodes
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Symmetrical supercapacitors and their serially connected two-cell stacks via a bipolar electrode were constructed with nanocomposites of manganese oxides and carbon nanotubes (MnO(x)/CNTs) as the electrode materials. Nanocomposites with different contents of MnO(x) were synthesised through the redox reaction between KMnO(4) and CNTs in aqueous solutions. The nanocomposites were characterised by scanning and transmission electron microscopy, BET nitrogen adsorption and X-ray diffraction before being examined in a three-electrode cell with a novel trenched graphite disc electrode by electrochemical means, including cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charging-discharging, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The nanocomposites demonstrated capacitive behaviour in the potential range of 0-0.85 V (vs Ag/AgCl) in aqueous KCl electrolytes with less than 9% capacitance decrease after 9000 charging-discharging cycles. Symmetrical supercapacitors of identical positive and negative MnO(x)/CNTs electrodes showed capacitive performance in good agreement with the individual electrodes (e.g. 0.90V, 0.53 F, 1.3 cm(2)). The bipolarly connected two-cell stacks of the symmetrical cells exhibited characteristics in accordance with expectation, including a doubled stack voltage and reduced internal resistance per cell. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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