Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Ballroom 6ABC (Washington State Convention Center)
Supercapacitors have attracted in the field of portable electronic devices and electronic vehicles due to its long cycle stability and high power density. To achieve high energy density, researchers concentrated on the development of transition metal oxide and its composites based electrode material for supercapacitor device fabrication. Among them, MnO2 and TiO2 got great importance due to its low cost and environment friendly nature. Further, use of binary metal oxide nanocomposite electrode materials has been received much attention due to its exceptional physical properties and potential applications. In this work, MnO2 nanosheets encapsulated TiO2 nanorods have been synthesized by two step hydrothermal process for supercapacitors. Initially, TiO2 nanorods were synthesized by ion intercalation assisted hydrothermal process and the MnO2 nanosheets were encapsulated over the TiO2 nanorods by the simple hydrothermal technique with controlled pH condition. The physio chemical properties of the synthesized MnO2 nanosheets encapsulated TiO2 nanorods were studied by various characterization techniques. The crystalline nature of the synthesized material was studied by powder X-ray diffraction technique. Specific surface area and porous nature of the material was studied by nitrogen adsorption techniques and the measured specific surface area of the synthesized MnO2 nanosheets encapsulated TiO2 nanorods is 118 m2 g-1. Few layered MnO2 nanosheets and its encapsulation over TiO2 nanorods was confirmed by field emission electron microscope (FESEM) technique and the elemental analysis was carried out using EDS analysis. The electrochemical behavior of the synthesized MnO2 nanosheets encapsulated TiO2 nanorods was studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV), charge – discharge and electrochemical impedance techniques in 1 M Li2SO4 aqueous electrolyte. The quasi – rectangular shaped cyclic voltammetry curve was observed and confirmed the capacitive behavior of the synthesized material. The specific capacitance values of the synthesized MnO2 nanosheets encapsulated TiO2 nanorods electrode material was calculated from Galvanostatic charge-discharge technique at a various applied current density of 1 to 5 A g-1. The synthesized MnO2 nanosheets encapsulated TiO2 nanorods electrode shows high specific capacitance and energy density value of 1388.28 F g-1 and 123.41 Wh. kg-1, respectively at the applied current density of 1 A g-1. The electrochemical impedance analysis was performed within the frequency range of 10 mHz to 100 kHz to analyze the resistive and capacitive nature of the synthesized electrode material. The plotted Nyquist, Bode angle and Bode absolute plots confirmed the existence of pseudo capacitance and EDLC nature of the electrode material. The above results confirmed that the synthesized MnO2 nanosheets encapsulated TiO2 nanorods is a suitable material for supercapacitor application.