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ACS NANO
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages 7563-7571Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02846
Keywords
energy storage devices; conducting polymers; modified nanocellulose; porosity optimization; capacitance
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- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) [RMA-110012]
- Swedish Energy Agency
- Carl Trygger Foundation
- Bo Rydin Foundation
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We demonstrate that surface modified nanocellulose fibers (NCFs) can be used as substrates to synthesize supercapacitor electrodes with the highest full electrode-normalized gravimetric (127 F g(-1)) and volumetric (122 F cm(-3)) capacitances at high current densities (300 mA cm(-2) approximate to 33 A g(-1)) until date reported for conducting polymer-based electrodes with active mass loadings as high as 9 mg cm(-2). By introducing quaternary amine groups on the surface of NCFs prior to polypyrrole (PPy) polymerization, the macropore volume of the formed PPy-NCF composites can be minimized while maintaining the volume of the micro- and mesopores at the same level as when unmodified or carboxylate groups functionalized NCFs are employed as polymerization substrates. Symmetric, aqueous electrolyte-based, devices comprising these porosity-optimized electrodes exhibit device-specific volumetric energy and power densities of 3.1 mWh cm(-3) and 3 W cm(-3) respectively; which are among the highest values reported for conducting polymer electrodes in aqueous electrolytes. The functionality of the devices is verified by powering a red light-emitting diode with the device in different mechanically challenging states.
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