SANS to Monitor the Accessibility of Electrolytes into Aqueous Based Supercapacitor Electrodes

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Supercapacitors are devices capable of absorbing and delivering large amounts of energy over short time-scales. They are ideal for high-power/low-energy applications such as automotive acceleration and braking. In an attempt to reduce costs and improve safety we are developing a new generation of aqueous supercapacitors made from polymer-derived carbons loaded with N and S and porosity optimised to improve performance. One major challenge is to decouple pseudocapacitance associated with the heteroatoms from double layer capacitance from electrolyte in the porosity. To optimise performance we need to understand the ingress of electrolyte into the porosity: Contrast-Matching SANS can measure this and we will use D2O to decouple open from inaccessible porosity our new carbons. This will help us develop a new class of supercapacitor electrode material.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920450-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/107536886
Provenance
Creator Dr Steve King; Mr Zubair Ghumman; Dr Mojtaba Mirzaeian; Professor Peter Hall
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-11T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-10-14T08:00:00Z