Issue 23, 2017

Low-temperature vapour phase polymerized polypyrrole nanobrushes for supercapacitors

Abstract

A low-temperature modified vapour-phase synthesis allows for the deposition of high aspect ratio, conductive and capacitive one-dimensional nanostructures of the conducting polymer polypyrrole onto three-dimensional fibrous substrates. Nanofibrillar polypyrrole resembling nanobrushes can be deposited at temperatures as low as 50 °C without the use of hard templates. When deposited on a conductive substrate such as hard carbon paper, the nanofibers exhibit a three-electrode specific capacitance of 144.7 F g−1 over a 1.2 V window in 1 M lithium perchlorate with good reversibility. Two electrode electrochemical capacitors fabricated using polypyrrole on hard carbon paper exhibit a specific energy ranging from 7 to 13 W h kg−1 based on average electrode active mass with a maximum charging voltage between 0.6 and 1 V. Furthermore, the devices can undergo 200 000 cycles while retaining 70% of their initial capacitance when charged to 0.6 V. This work represents a significant advance in the synthesis of nanostructured polypyrrole from the vapor phase.

Graphical abstract: Low-temperature vapour phase polymerized polypyrrole nanobrushes for supercapacitors

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Jan 2017
Accepted
09 Mar 2017
First published
22 Mar 2017

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017,5, 11772-11780

Low-temperature vapour phase polymerized polypyrrole nanobrushes for supercapacitors

L. M. Santino, S. Acharya and J. M. D'Arcy, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 11772 DOI: 10.1039/C7TA00369B

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