Activated high specific surface area carbon aerogels for EDLCs

作者：Liu, Nianping; Shen, Jun^*; Liu, Dong

来源：Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2013, 167: 176-181.

DOI：10.1016/j.micromeso.2012.09.009

• Carbon aerogels
• Activation
• Electrical double-layer capacitors
• Specific surface area
• Organic electrolyte

This paper shows that the performance of resorcinol-formaldehyde-based carbon aerogels in electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) can be significantly enhanced by a simple treatment with CO2 activation. The changes in the specific surface area lead to high capacitance values, which provide a noticeable energy density. The CO2 activated carbon aerogels have a high specific surface area up to 3431 m(2)/g and specific capacitances three times higher than that of the raw carbon aerogels. The activated carbon aerogels obtained the specific capacitance at 152 F/g and energy density of 27.5 Wh/kg at the current density of 0.3 A/g in 1 M Et4NBF4-AN electrolyte. Furthermore, an excellent rate capability, low equivalent series resistance (ESR), and a good cycling stability over 8000 cycles of the resulting carbon aerogels were also confirmed by electrochemical measurements as galvanostatic charge-discharge, cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.

• 出版日期2013-2-2
• 单位同济大学