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Abstract: A simple and efficient route to decorate carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with nanocrystalline RuO2 has been developed. In this method, RuCl3 ·3H2O was oxidized into RuO2 by oxygen in supercritical diethyl amine, and the produced RuO2 deposited on CNTs, resulting in RuO2/CNT nanocomposites. The as-prepared composites were structurally and morphologically characterized by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEM images showed that RuO2 nanoparticles attached on CNTs had uniform shape and a narrow particle size distribution. The loading content and the size of RuO2 particles on CNTs could be tuned by changing the mass ratio of RuCl3 ·3H2O/CNT. Electrochemical measurements by cyclic voltammetry demonstrated a substantial increment of the specific capacitance of CNTs due to a pseudocapacitance originated from the deposited RuO2 nanoparticles. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]