Carbon and Nickel Oxide/Carbon Composites as Electrodes for Supercapacitors

J. Mater. Sci. Technol. ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (10): 931-936.

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Carbon and Nickel Oxide/Carbon Composites as Electrodes for Supercapacitors

Liutauras Marcinauskas^1,2), ?ydrunas Kavaliauskas¹⁾, Vitas Valincius¹⁾

1) Plasma Processing Laboratory, Lithuanian Energy Institute, Breslaujos 3, LT-4440, Kaunas, Lithuania
2) Department of Physics, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentu 50, LT-51368, Kaunas, Lithuania

Received:2012-02-03 Revised:2012-07-31 Online:2012-10-30 Published:2012-10-31
Contact: Liutauras Marcinauskas
Supported by:
the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) PlasTEP |# 033| KST 770123

Abstract

Abstract:

The carbon and nickel oxide/carbon composite electrodes were prepared by plasma jet and magnetron sputtering techniques. The investigations were performed to evaluate the in°uence of the Ar/C₂H₂ ratio on the specific capacitance values of carbon and NiO/carbon electrodes. The obtained electrodes were investigated by scanning electron microscopy, Raman scattering spectroscopy (RS), and X-ray diffraction techniques. The surface of the carbon electrodes became less porous and more homogenous with increasing Ar/C₂H₂. The RS results indicated that the fraction of the sp² carbon sites increased with increasing Ar/C₂H₂ ratio. The increase of the Ar/C2H2 ratio increased the capacitance values from 0.73 up to 3.6 F/g. Meanwhile, after the
deposition of the nickel oxide on the carbon, the capacitance increased ten and more times and varied in the range of 7.6–86.1 F/g.

Key words: Carbon , Plasma, Nickel oxide , Capacitance , Supercapacitors

Liutauras Marcinauskas, Zydrunas Kavaliauskas, Vitas Valincius. Carbon and Nickel Oxide/Carbon Composites as Electrodes for Supercapacitors[J]. J. Mater. Sci. Technol., 2012, 28(10): 931-936.

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