Abstract The electrochemical energy storage and delivery on the electrodes composed of hydrous ruthenium oxide (RuOx·nH2O) or activated carbon–hydrous ruthenium oxide (AC–RuOx) composites are found to strongly depend on the substrate employed. The contact resistance at the active material–graphite interface is much lower than that at the active material–stainless steel (SS) mesh inter…
Abstract The utilization of electrode materials could be greatly promoted by the employment of a mesh-type stainless steel (SS) current collector in comparison with a plate-type one. The capacitive behavior of activated carbon (AC) and AC–ruthenium (AC–Ru) composites fabricated by the wet impregnation were systematically investigated in 0.1MH2SO4 by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronopotent…
Abstract Ruthenium chloride and iridium chloride precursors (denoted hereafter as RuCl3aH2O and IrCl3bH2O) reacted with water molecules and transformed into the chloro-oxy-hydroxyl-metal (denoted as Ru(OH)dCl3dcH2O and Ir(OH)oCl3odH2O) structures when they were dissolved in water. The storage time, preheating, and initial pH of the deposition baths were demonstrated to significantly infl…
Abstract The effects of annealing in air and anodizing on the capacitive behavior of carbon–ruthenium (denoted as C–Ru) composites fabricated by wet impregnation were investigated in 0.1 M H2SO4 by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronopotentiometry (CP). The utilization of Ru species within the thick composites (-1000 lm) was greatly promoted by annealing in air at 240 -C for 8 h and anodizin…
Abstract The capacitive characteristics of activated carbon fabrics (ACFs) coated on the graphite substrates were systematically investigated by means of cyclic voltammetry and the galvanostatic charge–discharge technique. Effects of the PVDF contents in the electronically conductive binder, electrochemical pretreatments, and the electrolytes on the capacitive performance of ACFs were compar…