Blending and Characteristics of Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitor Device Assembled from Plasticized Proton Ion Conducting Chitosan:Dextran:NH(4)PF(6)Polymer Electrolytes
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2020
Abstract
This research paper investigates the electrochemical performance of chitosan (CS): dextran (DX) polymer-blend electrolytes (PBEs), which have been developed successfully with the incorporation of ammonium hexafluorophosphate (NH4PF6). X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis indicates that the plasticized electrolyte system with the highest value of direct current (DC) ionic conductivity is the most amorphous system. The glycerol addition increased the amorphous phase and improved the ionic dissociation, which contributed to the enhancement of the fabricated device's performance. Transference number analysis (TNM) has shown that the charge transport process is mainly by ions rather than electrons, ast(ion)= 0.957. The CS:DX:NH(4)PF(6)system was found to decompose as the voltage goes beyond 1.5 V. Linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) revealed that the potential window for the most plasticized system is 1.5 V. The fabricated electrochemical double-layer capacitor (EDLC) was analyzed with cyclic voltammetry (CV) and charge-discharge analysis. The results from CV verify that the EDLC in this work holds the characteristics of a capacitor. The imperative parameters of the fabricated EDLC such as specific capacitance and internal resistance were found to be 102.9 F/g and 30 omega, respectively. The energy stored and power delivered by the EDLC were 11.6 Wh/kg and 2741.2 W/kg, respectively.
Keywords
chitosan-dextran blend electrolyte, ammonium hexafluorophosphate, glycerol, XRD analysis, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy study, electrochemical double-layer capacitor device
Divisions
advanced
Funders
KNRC,Komar University of Science and Technology,Kurdish National Research Council,Kurdistan Regional Government,Kurdistan Regional Government-Iraq,Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research-Kurdish National Research Council,Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research,University of Sulaimani,Macau University of Science and Technology
Publication Title
Polymers
Volume
12
Issue
9
Publisher
MDPI
Publisher Location
ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND