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What is carbon nano-onion
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Controllable Growth of Carbon Nano-Onions for Developing High-Performance Controllable Growth of Carbon Nano-Onions for Developing High-Performance SupercapacitorsSupercapacitors
Y. Gao, Y. S. Zhou, J. Hudgins,Y. Gao, Y. S. Zhou, J. Hudgins, and Y. F. Lu*and Y. F. Lu*Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska, LincolnDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
E-mail: E-mail: [email protected] website: http://lane.unl.edu website: http://lane.unl.edu
Fresh Onion: edibleCarbon Nano-Onion: non-edible
Carbon nano-onions (CNOs) are concentric multilayer giant fullerenes, which consist of multiple concentric graphitic shells to form encapsulated structures
Motivations
High specific surface area
High electrochemical stability
High electronic conductivity
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Experiments and results
Synthesis of CNOs Capacitive properties of CNOs Capacitive properties of MnO2/CNO hybrid structure
Illustration of the experimental setup for CNO growth with resonant excitation by a wavelength-tunable CO2 laser.
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Photographs of ethylene-oxygen flames under laser excitation (The images below show molecular vibration under the excitation conditions).
A laser-assisted combustion process for growing CNO in open air was developed by using laser irradiations to achieve resonant excitation of precursor molecules. The laser energy was much more effectively coupled into the flame through the resonant excitation of ethylene molecules at 10.532 µm than other non-resonant wavelength.
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TEM images of CNOs grown (a) without laser excitation and with laser excitations at (b) 10.333 and (c) 10.532 µm. (d) Raman spectra of CNOs grown without laser excitation and with laser excitations at 10.333 and 10.532 µm . (e) Typical curve fitting of a first-order Raman spectrum.
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Summary of G-band FWHM and R3 for CNOs grown without laser excitation and with excitation at wavelengths of 10.333 and 10.532 µm at 1000 W.
TEM images of CNOs grown (a) without laser excitation and with different laser powers of (b) 400, (c) 600, and (d) 1000 W at 10.532 µm. (e) Raman spectra of CNOs grown with different laser powers.
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A simple method was used to activate the primitive CNOs by using KOH solution to achieve the increased specific surface areas of CNOs. In brief, (1) CNOs was firstly impregnated in KOH solution for 24 h; (2) The solution was filtered to get the impregnated CNOs. (3) The obtained CNOs was dried in an oven for 12 h at ~90 ; (4) At last, the CNOs were annealed at ~800 in N℃ ℃ 2 atmosphere for 1 h.
Capacitive properties of CNOs before KOH activation
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(a) Specific surface areas (SSAs) of CNOs grown at different laser powers. (b - d) Cyclic voltammograms of CNO electrodes.
(a) (b) (c) (d)400 W: 16 F/g 800 W: 25 F/g 1000 W: 30 F/g
Capacitive properties of CNOs after KOH activation
The SSAs increase with the increase in laser power. Consequently, the capacitance of CNOs increases. However, CNOs with much larger SSAs are needed to achieve improved capacitances.
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The SSAs increase with the increase of KOH concentration. After activation, pores (<= 5 nm) contribute significantly to the total pore volume of CNOs.
It is suggested that the activation of carbon with KOH proceeds as
6KOH + C ↔ 2K +3H2 + 2K2CO3 Then it followed by decomposition of K2CO3 and/or reaction of K/K2CO3/CO2, with carbon.
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(a) Cyclic voltammograms and (b) the capacitances of CNOs after 6 M KOH activation at different scan rates.
Deposition of MnO2 on CNOs
Experiment steps:
• After drying, the CNO coated Ni foams were immersed into the precursor solution ( mixture of 0.1 M Na2SO4 and 0.1 M KMnO4) for MnO2 coating.
• After immersing, the samples were rinsed using deionized water and then heated at 120 for 12 h in air.℃
Capacitive properties of MnO2/CNO hybrid structure
Electrophoretic deposition of CNOs on Ni foamsElectrophoretic deposition of CNOs on Ni foams
• CNOs were dispersed in ethanol. Al(NO3)3 was added into the solution to stabilize the CNO particles in the solution;
• The suspension was ultrasonicated for 30 min;• Then a layer of CNOs was deposited onto Ni foams by
electrophoretic deposition.
Deposition of MnODeposition of MnO22 on CNO/Ni foam on CNO/Ni foam
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SEM images of CNOs (a) without MnO2 deposition and with (b) 3 h, (c) 6 h, (d) 12 h deposition. (e) Raman spectra of CNOs without MnO2 deposition and with (b) 3 h, (c) 6 h, (d) 12 h deposition. (f) Raman spectra of the samples in the spectra range from 200 to 1000 cm-1 .
(a) Capacitance of CNOs after MnO2 deposition. (b) Galvanostatic charge/dischargecurves of CNOs before and after 12 h MnO2 deposition. (c) Cyclic voltammograms of CNOs before and after 12 h MnO2 deposition. .
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Future directions Acknowledgements
Scalable production of CNOs
25 welding torches with 3 mm orifice tips will be used to generate the flames.
A wavelength-tunable CO2 laser at a wavelength of 10.532 µm will be used to resonantly couple laser energy to the flame.
Another laser at 10.591 µm will be used to control the size of the CNOs.
A fume collector will be used to collect CNOs generated from the flames.
It is estimated that a production rate of 500 g/h will be achieved.
High-performance supercapacitors using hierarchical three-dimensional micro/nanoelectrodes
To achieve increased SSAs and reduced internal resistance at the same time; The Ni foams will serve as conductive scaffolds to house CNTs and CNOs to
reduce the matrix resistivity; The CNTs will be grown within the Ni foams to reduce the matrix resistivity
and increase the SSA significantly; CNOs will be used to fill the remaining spacing among the Ni forms and to
further increase the total SSA; Since all CNTs and CNOs will be filled within the Ni foams, no binder is
required.
The authors gratefully thank Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research (NCESR) and National Science Foundation (NSF) for financial support.
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CNOs are promising electrode material in fabricating high-performance supercapacitors
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Carbon materials have high SSAs, long cycle life, and high conductivity but low capacitance. Metal oxides have high theoretical capacitance but suffer from low SSAs, short cycle life, and low conductivity. Metal oxide/CNO composite is a potential approach to improve both capacitance and conductivity. In this study, capacitive properties of MnO2/CNO hybrid structure were investigated.