Flexible supercapacitors based on a polyaniline nanowire-infilled 10 nm-diameter carbon nanotube porous membrane by in situ electrochemical polymerization

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (32) ◽  
pp. 12602-12608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranran Wang ◽  
Qiang Wu ◽  
Xiaohua Zhang ◽  
Zhaohui Yang ◽  
Lijun Gao ◽  
...  

Nano-confined channels of carbon nanotubes greatly suppress volumetric changes of conducting polymers during cyclic charge–discharge processes, preventing loss of capacitance and degradation of the electrodes.

2009 ◽  
Vol 1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Ye Kang ◽  
Su-Mi Eo ◽  
Loon-Seng Tan ◽  
Jong-Beom Baek

AbstractSingle-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) and multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) were functionalized with 3,4-diaminobenzoic acid via “direct” Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction in PPA/P2O5 to afford ortho-diamino-functionalized SWCNT (DIF-SWCNT) and MWCNT (DIF-MWCNT). The resultant DIF-SWCNT and DIF-MWCNT showed improved solubility and dispersibility. To improve interfacial adhesion between CNT and polymer matrix, the grafting of ABPBI onto the surface of DIF-SWCNT (10 wt%) or DIF-MWCNT (10 wt%) was conducted by simple in-situ polymerization of AB monomer, 3,4-diaminobenzoic acid dihydrochloride, in PPA. The resultant ABPBI-g-MWCNT and ABPBI-g-SWCNT showed improved the mechanical and electrical properties.


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (44) ◽  
pp. 25051-25056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhong Yin ◽  
Hengbo Zhang ◽  
Rongzhen Gao ◽  
Aili Wang ◽  
Xinxin Mao ◽  
...  

In this work, a Co–N doped carbon nanotube (CNT) catalyst was fabricated via a simple pyrolysis approach.


2002 ◽  
Vol 739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hughes ◽  
George Z. Chen ◽  
Milo S. P. Shaffer ◽  
Derek J. Fray ◽  
Alan H. Windle

ABSTRACTNanoporous composite films of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and either polypyrrole (PPy) or poly(3-methylthiophene) (P3MeT) were grown using an electrochemical polymerization technique in which the nanotubes and conducting polymer were deposited simultaneously. The concentration and dispersion of MWNTs in the polymerization electrolyte was found to have a significant effect on the thickness of polymer coated on each MWNT and hence the loading of MWNTs in the films produced. It has been shown that for an increasing concentration of MWNTs in the polymerization electrolyte, the thickness of polymer coated on each MWNT decreases. This relationship made it possible to minimize ionic diffusion distances within the nanoporous MWNT-PPy films produced, reducing their electrical and ionic resistance and increasing their capacitance relative to similarly prepared pure PPy films.


2004 ◽  
Vol 855 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gupta ◽  
M. Hughes ◽  
J. Robertson

ABSTRACTElectrochemical tuning of single-wall carbon nanotubes has been investigated using in situ Raman spectroscopy. We built a linear actuator from single-wall carbon nanotube mat and studied in several alkali metal (Li, Na, and K) and alkaline earth (Ca) halide solutions. The variation of bonding with electrochemical biasing was monitored using in situ Raman. This is since Raman can detect changes in C-C bond length: the radial breathing mode (RBM) at ∼190 cm−1 varies inversely with the nanotube diameter and the G band at ∼1590 cm−1 varies with the axial bond length. In addition, the intensities of both the modes vary significantly in a nonmonotonic manner pointing at the emptying/depleting or filling of the bonding and anti-bonding states - electrochemical charge injection. We discuss the variation of spectroscopic observables (intensity/frequency) of these modes providing valuable information on the charge transfer dynamics on the single-wall carbon nanotubes mat surface. We found the in-plane compressive strain (∼ -0.25%) and the charge transfer per carbon atom (fc ∼ -0.005) as an upper bound for the electrolytes used i.e. CaCl2. These results can be quantitatively understood in terms of the changes in the energy gaps between the one-dimensional van Hove singularities in the electron density of states arising possibly due to the alterations in the overlap integral of π bonds between the p orbitals of the adjacent carbon atoms. Moreover, the extent of variation of the absolute potential of the Fermi level or alternatively modification of band gap is estimated from modeling Raman intensity to be around 0.1 eV as an upper bound for CaCl2.


2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (11) ◽  
pp. 2362-2365 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Li ◽  
T. Hungria ◽  
C. Garcia Marcelot ◽  
M. R. Axet ◽  
P.-F. Fazzini ◽  
...  

The shape and the composition of bimetallic alloys prepared by in situ reduction of molecular precursors depends on the carbon nanotube diameter.


2000 ◽  
Vol 72 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. R. Rao ◽  
G. U. Kulkarni ◽  
A. Govindaraj ◽  
B. C. Satishkumar ◽  
P. John Thomas

The size-dependent metal to nonmetal transition in metal nanoparticles has been investigated using photoelectron and tunneling spectroscopic techniques. Metal nanoparticles capped by thiols are shown to organize into ordered 2D and 3D structures. Single-walled nanotubes and aligned carbon nanotube bundles have been synthesized by controlling the size of metal nanoparticles produced in situ during the pyrolysis of precursors. Nanowires of gold and other metals have been produced in the capillaries of the single-walled nanotubes.


2010 ◽  
Vol 160 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 1591-1597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelghani Benyoucef ◽  
Smain Boussalem ◽  
Mohamed I. Ferrahi ◽  
Mohamed Belbachir

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (86) ◽  
pp. 82726-82732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Luo ◽  
Zheng Zhou ◽  
Ye Ren ◽  
Guang-Xin Chen ◽  
Qifang Li

A type of skin-core structured hybrid with a multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) center was synthesized by in situ free-radical polymerization of vinyl-benzyl ionic liquid and divinylbenzene on the outer surface of MWCNTs.


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