Asymmetric Aqueous Supercapacitor Based on p- and n-Type Conducting PolymersShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: ACS Applied Energy Materials, E-ISSN 2574-0962, Vol. 2, no 8, p. 5350-5355Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We demonstrated an asymmetric aqueous supercapacitor made of p- and n-type conducting polymer electrodes. We used the high electron affinity (EA) n-type polymer poly(benzimidazobenzophenanthroline) (BBL) as the anode conducting material, and the low ionization potential (IP) p-type polar polythiophene p(g(4)2T-T) as the cathode material. EA(BBL) matches IPp(g42T-T), enabling the fabrication of all-organic asymmetric p/n-supercapacitors that function in aqueous electrolytes. The devices operate in a voltage window up to 1 V, yielding areal capacitances of 90 mF cm(-2) and specific capacitances of 33 F g(-1) as well as excellent cycling stability with almost 100% capacitance retention over 10 000 cycles.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
AMER CHEMICAL SOC , 2019. Vol. 2, no 8, p. 5350-5355
Keywords [en]
asymmetric supercapacitor; aqueous electrolyte; conducting polymers; energy storage
National Category
Materials Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-201377DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.9b00853ISI: 000483434700002OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-201377DiVA, id: diva2:1842637
Note
Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council; Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; AForsk; VINNOVA; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at LinkOping University [SFO-Mat-LiU 2009 00971]; Finnish Cultural Foundation
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