scholarly journals An Overview on Ruthenium Oxide Composites – Challenging Material for Energy Storage Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipanwita Majumdar

Ruthenium oxides owing to their high specific capacitance have been widely identified as promising materials for electrochemical charge storage devices. However, high priced ruthenium precursors restrict their commercial usage. Accordingly, numerous explorations investigated the influences on capacitive behavior of ruthenium oxide on blending with varied materials like other metal oxides, activated carbons, conducting polymers, CNTs and functionalized graphene systems as composites. The aim had been to optimize the material cost without compromising with but improving the composite electrochemical performances. The scientific explorations reveal that the overall specific capacitance of composites is a strongly related to the ruthenium oxide (RuO2) present in the system since it is the main electro-active material providing the Faradaic pseudocapacitances besides the electrical double layer contributions from the base carbon component of the composite. Major progress in the theoretical and practical research and development in this particular field has enviced a large number of research articles and technical reports in the recent past. The current investigations focus on utilizing minimum amount of metal in the composite; upholding the synergistic effect from the metal oxide and the support (carbon materials generally) to obtain better electrochemical signatures. Optimization of important factors leading to reduced nanostructure agglomeration, minimum electrostatic resistance and ultrafast proton/electrons diffusion through the hollow porous structures may ultimately result to the theoretically expected specific capacitance. Nonetheless, to the best of knowledge of the author, there is no systematic review available pertaining to recent advancement of the composites of RuO2. Thus, this overview categorically narrates recent progresses on the fabrication, performances and achievements of ruthenium oxide composite as electrode material in energy storage applications which will be beneficial especially to the newcomers in this field of research.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (47) ◽  
pp. 20345-20357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil Kumar ◽  
Mahima Khandelwal

Novel ultrathin graphene sheets (0.41 ± 0.03 nm) with increased sp2 character, high specific capacitance and charge–discharge capability have been synthesized and demonstrated to have potential energy storage applications.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (64) ◽  
pp. 51773-51778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinfeng Sun ◽  
Jinqing Wang ◽  
Zhangpeng Li ◽  
Zhigang Yang ◽  
Shengrong Yang

3D hierarchical bismuth (Bi)-based compounds with controllable sizes and morphologies exhibit high specific capacitance and superior rate capability.


Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 2718
Author(s):  
Shujahadeen B. Aziz ◽  
M. A. Brza ◽  
Iver Brevik ◽  
M. H. Hamsan ◽  
Rebar T. Abdulwahid ◽  
...  

In this work, plasticized polymer electrolyte films consisting of chitosan, ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) and glycerol for utilization in energy storage devices was presented. Various microscopic, spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques were used to characterize the concerned electrolyte and the electrical double-layer capacitor (EDLC) assembly. The nature of complexation between the polymer electrolyte components was examined via X-ray diffraction analysis. In the morphological study, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) was used to investigate the impact of glycerol as a plasticizer on the morphology of films. The polymer electrolyte (conducting membrane) was found to have a conductivity of 3.21 × 10−3 S/cm. It is indicated that the number density (n), mobility (μ) and diffusion coefficient (D) of ions are increased with the glycerol amount. The mechanism of charge storing was clarified, which implies a non-Faradaic process. The voltage window of the polymer electrolyte is 2.32 V. It was proved that the ion is responsible for charge-carrying via measuring the transference number (TNM). It was also determined that the internal resistance of the EDLC assembly lay between 39 and 50 Ω. The parameters associated with the EDLC assembly are of great importance and the specific capacitance (Cspe) was determined to be almost constant over 1 to 1000 cycles with an average of 124 F/g. Other decisive parameters were found: energy density (18 Wh/kg) and power density (2700 W/kg).


2020 ◽  
Vol 975 ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Chih Chieh Yang ◽  
Chia Hong Lee ◽  
Tseung Yuen Tseng

Nickel cobaltite has become a popular energy storage material in recent years for high performance energy storage devices because of its low lost, high electronic conductivity, high electrochemical activity and environmental benignity. Nickel cobaltite (NCO)/porous graphene nanosheets network (PG) composites were synthesized via the two-steps hydrothermal method to enhance electrochemical properties in this study. The NCO/PG composite electrode demonstrated high specific capacitance of 3965 F g-1 at the current density of 1 A g-1 compared with the value of NCO that capacitance is 644 F g-1, and it maintained the 72% of the original capacitance after 3,000 charge-discharge cycles. It showed the maximum energy density of 46.3 Wh kg-1 and maximum power density of 1450 W kg-1. The NCO/GO composite has high potential as a psudocapacitance material for energy storage devices.


2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (19) ◽  
pp. 6242-6248
Author(s):  
Meizhen Dai ◽  
Xinxu Jia ◽  
Hengqi Liu ◽  
Yongli Tong ◽  
Depeng Zhao ◽  
...  

Developing electrode materials with high specific capacitance and excellent stability for energy storage is necessary to solve energy shortage issues.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 662-670
Author(s):  
Matangi Sricharan ◽  
Bikesh Gupta ◽  
Sreejesh Moolayadukkam ◽  
H S S Ramakrishna Matte

MoO3 is a versatile two-dimensional transition metal oxide having applications in areas such as energy storage devices, electronic devices and catalysis. To efficiently utilize the properties of MoO3 arising from its two-dimensional nature exfoliation is necessary. In this work, the exfoliation of MoO3 is carried out in 2-butanone for the first time. The achieved concentration of the dispersion is about 0.57 mg·mL−1 with a yield of 5.7%, which are the highest values reported to date. These high values of concentration and yield can be attributed to a favorable matching of energies involved in exfoliation and stabilization of MoO3 nanosheets in 2-butanone. Interestingly, the MoO3 dispersion in 2-butanone retains its intrinsic nature even after exposure to sunlight for 24 h. The composites of MoO3 nanosheets were used as an electrode material for supercapacitors and showed a high specific capacitance of 201 F·g−1 in a three-electrode configuration at a scan rate of 50 mV·s−1.


2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (19) ◽  
pp. 9221-9229 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Bhattacharya ◽  
P. Deb

Here, the novel Fe3O4-C hybrid nanocomposite demonstrates high specific capacitance (S.C.) than the pristine Fe3O4nanospheres due to the presence of the highly conducting carbon quantum dots.


2011 ◽  
Vol 306-307 ◽  
pp. 134-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Dong Yin ◽  
Gui Lian Li ◽  
Xian Ming Liu

NiO/Ni nanocomposites were prepared by chemically reduction-oxidation process in tetra-ethylene glycol (TEG) solution. The structure and morphology of the samples were examined by XRD and SEM. The results indicated the composite consisted of NiO and Ni and exhibited spherical morphology with diameter of 50-200 nm. The electrochemical performances of composite electrodes used in electrochemical capacitors were studied. The electrochemical measurements were carried out using cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge/discharge and impedance spectroscopy in 6M KOH aqueous electrolyte using three-electrode Swagelok systems. The results showed that the composite had a high specific capacitance and excellent capacitive behavior. The specific capacitance of the composite decreased to 192F/g after 500 cycles. Due to the existance of Ni, the charge transfer resistance is lower than 1Ω. It revealed that the composite exhibited good cycling performance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1320-1331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit G. Jadhav ◽  
Devraj Singh ◽  
Shaikh M. Mobin ◽  
Apurba K. Das

A binder-free electrodeposited organic–inorganic multifunctional nanohybrid electrode exhibits high specific capacitance with electrocatalytic water splitting performance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunfeng Wang ◽  
Honghui Jiang ◽  
Shewen Ye ◽  
Jiaming Zhou ◽  
Jiahao Chen ◽  
...  

As the low-cost, natural multi-component for elemental doping and environment-friendly characteristics, biomass-derived porous carbon for energy storage attracts intense attention. Herein, walnut shells-based porous carbon has been obtained through carbonization, hydrothermal and activation treatment. The corresponding porous carbon owns superior electrochemical performances with specific capacitance reaching up to 462[Formula: see text]F[Formula: see text]g[Formula: see text] at 1[Formula: see text]A[Formula: see text]g[Formula: see text], and shows excellent cycling stability (5000 cycles, [Formula: see text]94.2% of capacitance retention at 10[Formula: see text]A[Formula: see text]g[Formula: see text]). Moreover, the symmetry supercapacitor achieves high specific capacitance (197[Formula: see text]F[Formula: see text]g[Formula: see text] at 1[Formula: see text]A[Formula: see text]g[Formula: see text]), relevant electrochemical cycling stability (5000 cycles, 89.2% of capacitance retention at 5[Formula: see text]A[Formula: see text]g[Formula: see text]) and high power/energy density (42.8[Formula: see text]W[Formula: see text]h[Formula: see text]kg[Formula: see text] at 1249[Formula: see text]W[Formula: see text]kg[Formula: see text]). Therefore, the facile synthesis approach and superb electrochemical performance ensure that the walnut shells-derived porous carbon is a promising electrode material candidate for supercapacitors.


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