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Bi2O3 deposited on highly ordered mesoporous carbon for supercapacitors

  • Dingsheng Yuan
  • , Jianghua Zeng
  • , Noel Kristian
  • , Yi Wang
  • , Xin Wang

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Abstract

A simple route has been employed to prepare nanosized Bi2O3 deposited on highly ordered mesoporous carbon. The electrochemical measurements reveal that, by loading only 10% Bi2O3 on the mesoporous carbon, the specific capacitance of the composite is improved by 62%, with the maximum value reaching 232 F g-1 at a sweep rate of 5 mV s-1. The specific capacitance of Bi2O3 is calculated and reaches 1305 F g-1 at 1 mV s-1. It is found that the mass transfer in the framework of the crystalline oxide is still difficult in spite of its nanosize, as evidenced by the decline of the specific capacitance of the Bi2O3 with the increase of the sweep rate. The cyclic life of composite materials is also measured and the capacitance only declines 21% after 1000 cycles. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)313-317
JournalElectrochemistry Communications
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2009
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

This work was financially supported by the academic research fund AcRF tier 1(RG40/05), AcRF tier 2 (ARC11/06) of the Ministry of Education (Singapore), Supplementary equipment purchase fund (RG116/06). Funding support from Natural Science Foundation of China (20876067) and the Young-Teacher Fund of Jinan University (51208023) are also greatly acknowledged.

Research Keywords

  • Bi2O3
  • Highly ordered mesoporous carbon
  • Specific capacitance
  • Supercapacitors

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