Abstract
Transition metal carbides (MXenes) are an emerging class of two dimensional (2D) materials with promising electrochemical energy storage performance. Herein, for the first time, by direct chemical synthesis, nanocrystalline ε-MnO2 whiskers were formed on MXene nanosheet surfaces (ε-MnO2/Ti2CTx and ε-MnO2/Ti3C2Tx) to make nanocomposite electrodes for aqueous pseudocapacitors. The ε-MnO2 nanowhiskers increase the surface area of the composite electrode and enhance the specific capacitance by nearly three orders of magnitude compared to pure MXene based symmetric supercapacitors. Combined with enhanced pseudocapacitance, the fabricated ε-MnO2/MXene supercapacitors exhibited excellent cycling stability with ~88% of the initial specific capacitance retained after 10000 cycles which is much higher than pure ε-MnO2 based supercapacitors (~74%). The proposed electrode structure capitalizes on the high specific capacitance of MnO2 and the ability of MXenes to improve conductivity and cycling stability.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 18806-18814 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 29 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 14 2016 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: Research reported in this publication has been supported by King Abdullah University of
Science & Technology (KAUST). Authors thank the ‘Advanced Nanofabrication, Imaging and
Characterization Laboratory ’and ‘Analytical Chemistry Laboratory’ at KAUST. R.B.Rakhi
acknowledges the support of Ramanujan Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology
(DST), Govt.of India and CSIR-NIIST Thiruvananthapuram, India.