Layered Iron Vanadate Nanocomposite for High Voltage, Low Cost, and Green Supercapacitor

Wednesday, 12 October 2022: 09:40
Room 224 (The Hilton Atlanta)
F. N. I. Sari and J. M. Ting (National Cheng Kung University)
High voltage supercapacitor has attracted great attentions. In this study, low-cost, environmentally friendly “water in salt (WIS)” electrolyte was introduced to replace the expensive and toxic of organic and ionic electrolyte. Very recently, potassium acetate (CH3CO2K) electrolyte was found to be able to replace the LiTFSI in LiB. Moreover, CH3CO2K is safer and cheaper than LiTFSI-based WIS electrolytes. Therefore, in this study, we open up new opportunities of using acetate based WIS electrolyte in the supercapacitor. We investigated several acetate based WIS, such as CH3CO2K, CH3CO2Na, CH3CO2Li, and its combination. The result shows that mixing two WIS leads to wider potential window up to 2.2V. We investigated the performance of CH3CO2K-CH3CO2Li WIS in layered iron vanadate nanocomposite. The synergistic effect of unique properties of layered iron vanadate nanocomposite and bi-WIS resulting in high energy density of 53 Wh kg-1 and power density of 10 kW kg-1. This environmentally friendly electrolyte is very promising and expands the scope of aqueous electrolyte for next generation of supercapacitor.