Are room temperature ionic liquids able to improve the safety of supercapacitors organic electrolytes without degrading the performances?

Abdallah, Thamra; Lemordant, Daniel; Claude-Montigny, Bénédicte

doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2011.10.115

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“…Since they do not involve chemical reactions, supercapacitors can be charged quickly (from millisecond‐ to second‐scale), leading to a very high power density (>10 000 W kg −1 ) and long cycle life (millions of charge–discharge (CD) cycles) . In addition, they can be flexible and made entirely of nontoxic and nonhazardous materials, fulfilling peculiar requirements of portable and wearable electronic devices . In this context, the ever‐increasing demand of multifunctional systems has drawn the attention toward planar micro‐supercapacitors (MSCs), which can deliver all the benefits of supercapacitors in smaller and lighter devices .…”

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Scalable Production of Graphene Inks via Wet‐Jet Milling Exfoliation for Screen‐Printed Micro‐Supercapacitors

Bellani

Petroni

Castillo

et al. 2019

Adv Funct Materials

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The miniaturization of energy storage units is pivotal for the development of next-generation portable electronic devices. Micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) hold great potential to work as on-chip micro-power sources and energy storage units complementing batteries and energy harvester systems. Scalable production of supercapacitor materials with costeffective and high-throughput processing methods is crucial for the widespread application of MSCs. Here, wet-jet milling exfoliation of graphite is reported to scale up the production of graphene as a supercapacitor material. The formulation of aqueous/alcohol-based graphene inks allows metal-free, flexible MSCs to be screen-printed. These MSCs exhibit areal capacitance (C areal ) values up to 1.324 mF cm −2 (5.296 mF cm −2 for a single electrode), corresponding to an outstanding volumetric capacitance (C vol ) of 0. 490 F cm −3 (1.961 F cm −3 for a single electrode). The screen-printed MSCs can operate up to a power density above 20 mW cm −2 at an energy density of 0.064 µWh cm −2 . The devices exhibit excellent cycling stability over chargedischarge cycling (10 000 cycles), bending cycling (100 cycles at a bending radius of 1 cm) and folding (up to angles of 180°). Moreover, ethylene vinyl acetate-encapsulated MSCs retain their electrochemical properties after a home-laundry cycle, providing waterproof and washable properties for prospective application in wearable electronics.

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Scalable Production of Graphene Inks via Wet‐Jet Milling Exfoliation for Screen‐Printed Micro‐Supercapacitors

Bellani

Petroni

Castillo

et al. 2019

Adv Funct Materials

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165

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“…8−10 Based on which, ILs have been used as electrolytes to build safe and stable supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries. 5,9 However, the main drawbacks of ILs are their viscosity and cost, explaining in fact why their large-scale applications are still limited. In order to reduce the viscosity of ILs, which is typically many times higher than that of classical solvents, 22 binary mixtures containing an IL dissolved in a molecular solvent, usually ACN or PC, have been optimized and used as electrolytes for several electrochemical applications, 23−27 such as EDLCs, for example.…”

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Physicochemical Investigation of Adiponitrile-Based Electrolytes for Electrical Double Layer Capacitor

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Herein, we present the formulation and the characterization of novel adiponitrile-based electrolytes as a function of the salt structure, concentration, and temperature for supercapacitor applications using activated carbon based electrode material. To drive this study two salts were selected, namely, the tetraethylammonium tetrafluoroborate and the 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]imide. Prior to determination of their electrochemical performance, formulated electrolytes were first characterized to quantify their thermal, volumetric, and transport properties as a function of temperature and composition. Then, cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy techniques were used to investigate their electrochemical properties as electrolyte for supercapacitor applications in comparison with those reported for the currently used model electrolyte based on the dissolution of 1 mol·dm −3 of tetraethylammonium tetrafluoroborate in acetonitrile. Surprisingly, excellent electrochemical performances were observed by testing adiponitrile-based electrolytes, especially those containing the 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]imide roomtemperature molten salt. Differences observed on electrochemical performances between the selected adiponitrile electrolytes based on high-temperature (tetraethylammonium tetrafluoroborate) and the room-temperature (1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]imide) molten salts are mainly driven by the salt solubility in adiponitrile, as well as by the charge and the structure of each involved species. Furthermore, in comparison with classical electrolytes, the selected adiponitrile +1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]imide solution exhibits almost similar specific capacitances and lower equivalent serial resistance. These results demonstrate in fact that the adiponitrile +1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]imide mixture can be used for the formulation of safer electrolytes presenting a very low vapor pressure even at high temperatures to design acetonitrile-free supercapacitor devices with comparable performances.

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“…Na-ion, Mg-ion and metal-air batteries) for the development of potentially safer devices. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Furthermore, the high (electro)chemical stabilities and non-volatilities exhibited by many IL structures provides interesting electrolyte media for electrochemical gas sensors (e.g. for O 2 , [16][17][18][19] CO 2 ,20,21 NO 2 22 ) where traditional solvents are prone to evaporation leading to device failure, and also for electromechanical actuator, [23][24][25] and electrodeposition applications.…”

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Physical and Electrochemical Investigations into Blended Electrolytes Containing a Glyme Solvent and Two Bis{(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl}imide-Based Ionic Liquids

Neale

Goodrich

Hughes

et al. 2017

J. Electrochem. Soc.

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In this paper, we report on thermophysical and electrochemical investigations of a series of molecular solvent/ionic liquid (IL) binary mixture electrolytes. Tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether (TEGDME) is utilized as the molecular solvent component in separate mixtures with two bis{(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl}imide anion based ILs paired with similarly sized cyclic and acyclic alkylammonium cations; 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis{(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl}imide, [Pyrr 14 ] [TFSI], or N-butyl-N,N-dimethyl-N-ethylammonium bis{(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl}imide, [N 1124 ] [TFSI]. The blending of ILs with select molecular solvents is an important strategy for the improvement of the typically sluggish transport capabilities of these interesting electrolytic solvents. Bulk volumetric and transport properties are reported as a function of temperature and binary mixture formulation; demonstrating the capacity for enhancing desired properties of the IL. Micro-disk electrode voltammetry and chronoamperometry in O 2 -saturated binary mixture electrolytes was used to assess the effect of formulation on the solubility and diffusivity of the dissolved gas. In addition, further investigations of the behavior of the O 2 redox couple at a GC macro-disk electrode are discussed. The exploration of ionic liquids (ILs) as alternatives to conventional molecular solvents in electrolyte formulations is continually growing for a variety of electrochemical applications. These low melting organic salts can be tailored to exhibit a variety of properties, including hydrophobicity and thermal, chemical, and electrochemical stability, which make them attractive candidate electrolyte solvents. Composed solely of ionic components, ILs consequently possess intrinsic electrolytic conductivity and are additionally non-volatile. These properties have encouraged the use of ILs as (complete or partial) substitutions of the volatile components of commercial Li-ion batteries, electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLCs), and other prospective battery technologies (e.g. Na-ion, Mg-ion and metal-air batteries) for the development of potentially safer devices.1-15 Furthermore, the high (electro)chemical stabilities and non-volatilities exhibited by many IL structures provides interesting electrolyte media for electrochemical gas sensors (e.g. for O 2 , 16-19 CO 2 , 20,21 NO 2 22 ) where traditional solvents are prone to evaporation leading to device failure, and also for electromechanical actuator, 23-25 and electrodeposition applications. [26][27][28] Nevertheless, while the properties of ILs are dependent on the virtually unlimited combinations of different cation and anion structures, the attractive features are generally coupled with sluggish transport properties relative to conventional electrolytes based on either aqueous or organic solvents. In turn, electrochemical devices constructed with neat IL electrolytes are likely to suffer transport limitations on useable current rates for the given application, for example restricting power capabiliti...

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Are room temperature ionic liquids able to improve the safety of supercapacitors organic electrolytes without degrading the performances?

Cited by 76 publications

References 21 publications

Scalable Production of Graphene Inks via Wet‐Jet Milling Exfoliation for Screen‐Printed Micro‐Supercapacitors

Scalable Production of Graphene Inks via Wet‐Jet Milling Exfoliation for Screen‐Printed Micro‐Supercapacitors

Physicochemical Investigation of Adiponitrile-Based Electrolytes for Electrical Double Layer Capacitor

Physical and Electrochemical Investigations into Blended Electrolytes Containing a Glyme Solvent and Two Bis{(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl}imide-Based Ionic Liquids

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