Bifacial carbon nanofoam-fibrous PEDOT composite supercapacitor in the 3-electrode configuration for electrical energy storage

Abstract

A B S T R A C TElectrical energy storage properties of supercapacitors based on carbon nanofoam-fibrous PEDOT composite and microporous PEDOT film/graphite electrodes formed by the pulsed current electropolymerization technique are investigated. The 3-dimensional nano-architecture of the composite carbon nanofoam -fibrous PEDOT electrode exhibits high pore connectivity and electrolyte ion diffusivity. By utilizing its bifacial ion transportation ability and reduced ion diffusion impedance, a supercapacitor device in the 3-electrode configuration has been tested which shows high specific capacitance of 210.8 F g À1 as compared to 142.5 F g À1 observed for the supercapacitor in the conventional 2-electrode design. The voltage scan rate dependence shows high efficacy of the bifacial carbon nanofoam electrode in faster ion transport in the 3-electrode supercapacitor configuration. The 3-electrode supercapacitor cell shows energy density of 8.53 Wh kg À1 which is nearly 1.7 times higher than the energy density of the 2-electrode supercapacitor cell. The power density of $19.7 kW kg À1 for the 3-electrode supercapacitor cell is also superior as the 2-electrode supercapacitor exhibit a typical value of 11.8 kW kg À1 .Published by Elsevier B.V.

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