Anomalous Increase in Carbon Capacitance at Pore Sizes Less Than 1 Nanometer

Author:

Chmiola J.12,Yushin G.12,Gogotsi Y.12,Portet C.12,Simon P.12,Taberna P. L.12

Affiliation:

1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering and A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

2. Université Paul Sabatier, CIRIMAT, UMR CNRS 5085, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.

Abstract

Carbon supercapacitors, which are energy storage devices that use ion adsorption on the surface of highly porous materials to store charge, have numerous advantages over other power-source technologies, but could realize further gains if their electrodes were properly optimized. Studying the effect of the pore size on capacitance could potentially improve performance by maximizing the electrode surface area accessible to electrolyte ions, but until recently, no studies had addressed the lower size limit of accessible pores. Using carbide-derived carbon, we generated pores with average sizes from 0.6 to 2.25 nanometer and studied double-layer capacitance in an organic electrolyte. The results challenge the long-held axiom that pores smaller than the size of solvated electrolyte ions are incapable of contributing to charge storage.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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