1. Performance of lithium-ion capacitors using pre-lithiated multiwalled carbon nanotubes/graphite composite as negative electrode.
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Cai, Manyuan, Sun, Xiaogang, Chen, Wei, Qiu, Zhiwen, Chen, Long, Li, Xu, Wang, Jie, Liu, Zhenhong, and Nie, Yanyan
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CARBON nanotubes ,NANOTUBES ,CARBON nanofibers ,TUBULAR reactors ,BIOREACTORS ,ANODES - Abstract
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes have been synthesized by floating reactant method in a vertical tubular reactor. An internal short approach process was developed to achieve the pre-lithiated multiwalled carbon nanotube MWCNTs/graphite composite anodes. Lithium-ion capacitors (LICs) were composed of a pre-lithiated multiwalled carbon nanotubes/graphite composite anode and an activated carbon (AC) cathode. The electrochemical performance of LICs with different MWCNTs content was investigated through galvanostatic charge/discharge and electrochemical impedance. The results show that the charge-discharge performance of LICs was greatly improved with the addition of MWCNTs in anodes. LIC25 (25 wt% MWCNTs) was found to achieve the optimal electrochemical performance. The LIC25 hold a specific capacitance of 58.2 F/g at the current density of 100 mA/g. The maximum energy density and power density were up to 96 Wh/kg and 10.1 kW/kg, respectively, in the current range of 100~8000 mA/g. The continuous galvanostatic charge-discharge cycling tests revealed that the LIC25 maintained excellent capacity retention of 86% after 3000 cycles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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