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Oslo, Norway
Yury GogotsiDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute
Drexel UniversityPhone: (215) 895 6446, [email protected]
Philadelphia
Scientific Impacts and Opportunities in Electrical Energy Storage
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1. Chemical Storage2. Capacitive Storage
Chairs:
John B. Goodenough, University of Texas, AustinHéctor D. Abruña, Cornell UniversityMichelle V. Buchanan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Bruce Dunn,Yury Gogotsi*Michael ArmandMartin BazantRalph BroddAndrew BurkeRanjan DashJohn FerrarisWesley Henderson
Samson JenekheKatsumi KanekoPrashant Kumta
Keryn LianJeffrey Long
Joel SchindallBruno ScrosatiPatrice Simon
Henry White
John Chmiola, and other students/post-docs at Drexel UniversityDr. Jingsong Huang, ORNLProf. Katsumi Kaneko, Chiba UniversityProf. Miklos Kertesz, Georgetown University
AcknowledgementsCapacitive Storage Science panel members
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Supercapacitors Batteries
•Fundamentally different electrodes
•Batteries –electrochemically active
•Supercapacitors -electrochemically passive
•Leads to different properties
Supercapacitors and Batteries
J. Chmiola, Y. Gogotsi, Nanotechnology Law and Business, v. 4, 577 (2007)
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• Virtually all portable electronics are powered by batteries. U.S. and Europe far behind (absent); Japan, Korea, and China in the commercialization of advanced batteries
• The market demand is for maximum energy and power with minimal volume and weight
• In order to entice consumers to replace cell phones and laptops, new features are continually added (more energy) and the demands increase
Batteries are Ubiquitous
• Supercapacitors have higher power density than existing technologies• Ability to compliment batteries in hybrid power systems and enable other
high power applications• Increasing energy density paramount - understanding and being able to
predict electrode and electrolyte properties the key factor
Supercapacitors are Coming
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Supercapacitors are a potentially versatile solution to a variety of emerging energy applications based on their ability to achieve a wide range of energy and power density.
A battery-supercapacitor hybrid may be the battery of the future
Ragone plot of energy storage systems
R. Kotz, M. Carlen, Electrochimica Acta 45, 2483 (2001) R. F. Service, Science 313, 902 (2006).
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• Capacitor Systems and Devices- Increased energy density- Longer life cells (10 yr., 1M cycles)- Self-balancing- Cost
• Electrolytes for Capacitor StorageDesign electrolytes for EC operation: high ionic conductivity; wide electrochemical window, chemical and thermal stability; non toxic, biodegradable and/or renewable
• EDLC and Pseudocapacitive Charge Storage MaterialsNew strategies are needed to improve power and energy
density of charge storage materials
30 MJ CAPACITOR STORAGE SYSTEM30 MJ CAPACITOR STORAGE SYSTEM
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EDLC Charge Storage Materials: Majority of present day EDLC devices are based on activated carbon
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Charge Storage Materials by Design• Materials Synthesis
– Controlled structure and porosity
– Controlled surface functionality and charge
• Designed Architectures– Oriented High SSA – Conformal coatings
• Understanding of pore structure and ion size influences on charge storage
⇒ Will affect ESR, C, V, and thus…Power and Energy!
D. Choi, G. E. Blomgren, P. N. Kumta, Advanced Materials, 14 (2006)
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Electrolytes
Aqueous and non-aqueous electrolytes with the following properties are required:
■ immobilized matrix■ produced from sustainable sources■ high ionic conductivity■ chemical and thermal stability■ large electrochemical stability window (>5V)■ non-toxic, biodegradable and/or recyclable■ exceptional performance with long device lifetime
Traditional Electrolytes:- aqueous (KOH, H2SO4) - corrosive, low voltage- organic (AN or PC and [Et4N][BF4] or [Et3MeN][BF4]) - low capacitance, toxicity and safety concernsIonic Liquid Electrolytes - safer, but viscosity too high, conductivity low; improvements in properties from mixing with organic solvents
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• Equivalent circuit models (transmission-line models)– Advantages: Simple formulae, fit to experimental impedance spectra– Disadvantages: No nonlinear dynamics, microstructure, chemistry…
• Continuum models (Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations).– Advantages: analytical insight, nonlinear, microstucture– Limitations: point-like ions, mean-field approximation, no chemistry
• Atomistic models (Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics).– Advantages: molecular details, correlations, atomic mechanisms.– Limitations: <10,000 atoms, < 10ns, limited chemical reactions.
• Quantum models (ab initio quantum chemistry and DFT) – Advantages: Mechanisms and chemical reactions from first
principles.– Limitations: <100 atoms, <ps, periodic boundary conditions
VERY FEW MODELS HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO SUPERCAPACITORS
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• Equivalent circuit modeling provides useful analytical formulas to understand impedance data - can understand things such as pure double layer currents, pseudocapacitive currents, Faradic currents and resistive/diffusive currents
• Complex circuits can offer insight into measured behaviors, but still have not been able to offer predictive capacity
R. de Levie, Electrochimica Acta v. 8, 751 (1963).
Theoretical Work: Transmission-line Models
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• Some recent efforts have been made to better model microstructure• Use fractal models to describe microstructure and transmission line equations
describing blocking electrodes• Large number of variables that need to be fit• First principles calculations of parameters going into the model would provide a
better solutionM. Eikerling, A. A. Kornyshev, E. Lust, J. Electrochemical Society 152, E23 (2005).
Theoretical Work: Transmission-line Models
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A periodic carbon nanotube forest in a common organic electrolyte (1 M TEA + BF4- in propylene carbonate). Time series of the carbon nanotube potential in response to a sudden change in surface charge, showingpicosecond response. L. Yang, B. Fishbine, and L. R. Pratt, unpublished, 2007
Initial molecular configuration.
Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of EDLC
L. R. Pratt and A. Pohorille, Modeling of aqueous solution interfaces in biophysics, Chemical Reviews (2002).
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Grind
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Process FeaturesPrecise control over structure and pore size distribution in CDCNetwork of open poresVarious forms: coatings, free standing monoliths and powderNumerous carbides can be usedLinear kinetics (can be grown to a large thickness)
VSiC = VCDC
Etching Agent:Cl2, F2 ,Br2, I2, HCl, HBr, HI
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Carbide Derived Carbon
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Nanoporous CarbonPorosity >50%
Y. Gogotsi, S. Welz, D. Ersoy, M.J. McNallan, Nature, v. 411, p. 283 (2001); J. Chmiola, G. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, C. Portet, P.L. Taberna, P. Simon, Science, v. 313, p. 1760 (2006)
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Z.G. Cambaz, G. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, et al. J. American Ceramic Soc. V. 89, 509, 2006.
5 nm
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TEM of the CDC/SiC interface on SiC whisker obtained by chlorinated for 5 min at 800oC. Graphene
fringes0.5nm
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Interface Between SiC and CarbonAt the boundary, one graphene sheet forms from two SiC (111) planes
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Positions and spatial distribution of carbon atoms in the carbide affect the structure and pore size/shape of CDC
G. Yushin, A. Nikitin, Y. Gogotsi, Carbide Derived Carbon, in Nanomaterials Handbook, Y. Gogotsi, Editor. 2006, CRC Press
Carbide Lattice – Template for CDC
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Choice of starting material and synthesis conditions gives an almost unlimited range of porosity distributions
High surface area Uniform pores
Ti3SiC2 -CDC
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Pore volumeis tunable
Can the carbon pore structure be predicted?
Yushin, G.; Nikitin, A.; Gogotsi, Y., Carbide Derived Carbon. In Nanomaterials Handbook, Gogotsi, Y., Ed. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 2006; pp 237.
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• Increasing synthesis temperature increases graphitization but carbon remains amorphous until at least 1000ºC
RDF from neutron scattering + reverse Monte-Carlo simulation?
600600ººCC 800800ººCC 12001200ººCC
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J. Chmiola, G. Yushin, R. Dash, Y. Gogotsi, Journal of Power Sources 158, 765 (2005).R. Dash et al., Carbon 44, 2489 (2006).
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- With the recent development in the production of porous carbons with controllable pore size the basic question arises: what are the stable pore sizes and shapes in porous carbons on the nanoscale?
- The size and shape of pores have a profound effect on the energetics of adsorptive storage, a problem of great potential technological importance.
• Due to the nano-size of the pores, the chemical details of the environments matter, therefore quantum mechanical treatment is important and necessary at the atomic level.
• The difficulty is due to the multiple scales, the statistical distributions of the pores and their contents and the fact that multiple components (electrode, ions and solvents) are all essential for the functioning electrode.
Y. Gogotsi, et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 16006 (2005)I. Laszlo, M. Kertesz, Y. Gogotsi In Multiscale Modeling of Materials, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 978E, GG13-15 (2007)
Modeling of Porous Carbons
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Conventional wisdom says increasing surface area is only good insomuch as the pores are large enough to accommodate the ion and its solvation shell
M. Endo et al., Carbon 40, 2613 (2002). M. Hahn et al., Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 7, A33 (2004).
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H. L. F. von Helmholtz, Annalen der Physik 89, 211 (1853).
H. L. F. von Helmholtz, Annalen der Physik 337, 7 (1879).G. Gouy, Compt. Rend. 149, 654 (1910).D. L. Chapman, Philosophical Magazine 25, 475 (1913).O. Stern, Z. Elektrochem 30, 508 (1924).D. C. Grame, Chemistry Review 41, 441 (1947).J. O. M. Bokris, M. A. Devanathan, K. Muller, Proceedings of the Royal Society A274, 55 (1963).
The Double-Layer
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Huang, J.; Sumpter, B. G.; Meunier, V. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 520.
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C.-M. Yang, Y.-J. Kim, M. Endo, H. Kanoh, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, and K. Kaneko, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 20-21 (2007)
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Anomalous increase in carbon capacitance at pore size below 1 nm
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• Studied capacitance arising from the anion and cation separately• In all cases, greater than 85% of pores were less than the diameter of the
electrolyte ion + shell of associated solvent molecules• The average pore size was still greater than or equal to the size of the bare
electrolyte ion• Results show that the smaller anion has larger capacitance• But… why does the capacitance increase with decreasing pore size?• Could the energy required to remove solvent molecules from an ion (supplied by
the external circuit) be recovered during discharge?
J. Chmiola, C. Largeot, P.-L. Taberna, P. Simon, Y. Gogotsi, Ang. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, In Press.
Ions in Subnanometer Pores
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• Still no ability to predict behaviors -further modeling work needed
εr : electrolyte dielectric constantε0 : vacuum permittivityd : effective thickness of the double layerA : electrode specific surface areaL : pore lengthb : outer cylinder radiusa : inner cylinder radius
Small Pore Model
Huang, J.; Sumpter, B. G.; Meunier, V. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 520.
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Graphite and Nanotubes – Model Systems
Z. G. Cambaz, G. Yushin, S. Osswald, V. Mochalin, Y. Gogotsi, Noncatalytic Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes on SiC, Carbon (2008) in press
Factors affectingcarbon structure:
•Temperature, •Oxygen P•Surface state (roughness)•Surface chemistry•Heating rate
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Ionic Structure of
“NANOSOLUTION”
Hydration structure of ions in bulk ionic solutionY. Marcus, Chem. Rev. 88, 1475 (1988)
H. Ohtaki, T. Radnai, Chem. Rev. 93, 1157 (1993)
+ H2O
Electrical double layer at nanoscale ?
Restricted Solvation Structure
K. Kaneko, Chiba U, Japan
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• 1.6 mol/dm3
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• Uncharged tubes do not permit entry of ions • Increasing charge increases the number of cations that enter
the tubes• Ion entry requires partial desolvation• Double-layer capacitance in very narrow pores influenced
more by shift in ion chemical potential than Helmholtz layer
Small Pore Model
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT)–A convenient model system
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If potassium channels can strip a K+ ion of its hydration shell entirely (with no potential) why under large potential (>2V!!!) wouldn’t the same happen in a supercapacitor pore?
Valiyaveetil, F. I.; Leonetti, M.; Muir, T. w.; MacKinnont, R., Science 2006, 314.
Ionic Channels
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energy density• Still need to understand capacitance mechanisms and possibly increase the
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• TiC-CDC tested with EMI-TFSI ionic liquid• Results show that, again, ionic liquids have larger capacitance in carbons with
smaller pore size • Question: How to match a porous electrode with an ionic
liquid (select from hundreds)?. Largeot, C. Portet, J. Chmiola, P.L. Taberna, Y. Gogotsi, P. Simon, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2008) in press
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Challenge: Modeling Filled Porous Carbon StructuresSolution:Energetics of series of filled pores. Carbon nanotubes may serve as idealized models. Variation of ions and solvent molecules, relative stabilities with respect to empty pores and pores filled with solvent only and their effect on the work function of the pore walls.Affinities of various pore shapes to solvents vs. solutes.Primarily quantum mechanical calculations.
Difficulties:The following components put competing requirements on the modeling:
-Electrochemical potential.-Redox processes at the surface, role of specific solute ions, solvent’s role.
These have to be treated together and for different pores.
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Theory and Modeling Challenges• Structure and behavior/properties of solvent and ions inside pores.• Ion transport near electrified surfaces and inside mesopores and
micropores to predict capacitance energy and charging dynamics.• Wetting phenomena and desolvation of ions at high voltages and
high rates.• Use modeling tools that include both chemistry and dynamics (e.g.,
ab initio molecular dynamics and electronic structure of carbon).• Modeling of new capacitor electrolytes (e.g., ionic liquids and new
solid electrolytes).• Identify model experimental systems for validation of simulations
(e.g., ion transport in a CNT).• Multi-scale modeling of electrochemical capacitors (electronic
interfacial structure → pore-scale dynamics → charging profiles).
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• Mathematical theory (beyond equivalent circuits)– Derivation of nonlinear transmission line models for large voltages– Modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations (steric effects,
correlations…)– Continuum models coupling charging to mechanics, energy
dissipation,…• Physics and chemistry of solvent and ions in nanopores
– Develop accurate models for MD and MC simulations– Entrance of ions into nanopores -- desolvation energy and kinetics.– Ion transport, wetting, surface activation, and chemical modification.
• Physics and chemistry of electrode materials– Electron and ion transport in capacitor electrodes.– Theory of capacitance of metal oxides and conducting polymers.
• Validation against simple model experiments– Ordered arrays of monodisperse pores, single carbon nanotubes.– Vibrational spectroscopy, neutron and x-ray analysis of ions and
solvent in confined spaces
Research Directions for Theory & Modeling