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High power density electrodes for Carbon supercapacitor applications
Abstract
This paper presents results obtained with 4 cm2 Carbon/Carbon supercapacitors cells in organic electrolyte. In the first approach, a surface treatment for Al current collector foil via the sol–gel route has been used in order to decrease the Al/active material interface resistance.
Performances obtained with this original process are: a low equivalent series resistance (ESR) of 0.5cm2 and a specific capacitance of 95Fg−1 of activated carbon. Then, supercapacitors assembled with treated Al foil and active material containing activated carbon/carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with
different compositions have been studied. Galvanostatic cycling measurements show that when CNTs content increases, both ESR and specific capacitance are decreased. Fifteen percent appears to be a good compromise between stored energy and delivered power with an ESR of 0.4cm2 and a specific capacitance of 93 F g−1 of carbonaceous active material. Finally, cells frequency behaviour has been characterized by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy. The relaxation time constant of cells decreases when the CNTs content increases. For 15% of CNTs, the time constant is about 30% lower as compared to a cell using pure
activated carbon-based electrodes leading to a higher delivered power.
Keywords: Supercapacitors; Sol–gel route; Carbon nanotubes; Activated carbon; High power
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