Synthesis of hydrophilic carbon black; role of hydrophilicity in maintaining the hydration level and protonic conduction
- 14 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in RSC Advances
- Vol. 3 (12) , 3917-3924
Abstract
We report the low-temperature (250 °C) synthesis of high-performance hydrophilic carbon black for application as a conducting filler in supercapacitor electrodes. Increased water content, due to the hydrophilicity, maintained the uniform hydration level of MnO2/carbon composite electrodes, with good protonic conduction. This results in an increase in the total specific capacitance by 24%.Keywords
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