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An aqueous 2.1 V pseudocapacitor with MXene and V-MnO2 electrodes

Show Author's Information Jiabin Wu1,2,  Qun Li1,  Christopher E. Shuck2,  Kathleen Maleski2,  Husam N. Alshareef3,  Jun Zhou1,  Yury Gogotsi2( ),  Liang Huang1( )
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute Drexel University Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104 USA
Materials Science and Engineering Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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MXenes have shown record-breaking redox capacitance in aqueous electrolytes, but in a limited voltage window due to oxidation under anodic potential and hydrogen evolution under high cathodic potential. Coupling Ti3C2Tx MXene negative electrode with RuO2 or carbon-based positive electrodes expanded the voltage window in sulfuric acid electrolyte to about 1.5 V. Here, we present an asymmetric pseudocapacitor using abundant and eco-friendly vanadium doped MnO2 as the positive and Ti3C2Tx MXene as the negative electrode in a neutral 1 M Li2SO4 electrolyte. This all-pseudocapacitive asymmetric device not only uses a safer electrolyte and is a much less expensive counter-electrode than RuO2, but also can operate within a 2.1 V voltage window, leading to a maximum energy density of 46 Wh/kg. This study also demonstrates the possibility of using MXene electrodes to expand the working voltage window of traditional redox-capable materials.


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An aqueous 2.1 V pseudocapacitor with MXene and V-MnO2 electrodes

Show Author's information Jiabin Wu1,2, Qun Li1, Christopher E. Shuck2, Kathleen Maleski2, Husam N. Alshareef3, Jun Zhou1, Yury Gogotsi2( ), Liang Huang1( )
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute Drexel University Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104 USA
Materials Science and Engineering Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia

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MXenes have shown record-breaking redox capacitance in aqueous electrolytes, but in a limited voltage window due to oxidation under anodic potential and hydrogen evolution under high cathodic potential. Coupling Ti3C2Tx MXene negative electrode with RuO2 or carbon-based positive electrodes expanded the voltage window in sulfuric acid electrolyte to about 1.5 V. Here, we present an asymmetric pseudocapacitor using abundant and eco-friendly vanadium doped MnO2 as the positive and Ti3C2Tx MXene as the negative electrode in a neutral 1 M Li2SO4 electrolyte. This all-pseudocapacitive asymmetric device not only uses a safer electrolyte and is a much less expensive counter-electrode than RuO2, but also can operate within a 2.1 V voltage window, leading to a maximum energy density of 46 Wh/kg. This study also demonstrates the possibility of using MXene electrodes to expand the working voltage window of traditional redox-capable materials.

Keywords: MXene, supercapacitors, manganese oxide, metal oxides, pseudocapacitors

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Received: 21 March 2021
Revised: 03 April 2021
Accepted: 08 April 2021
Published: 26 May 2021
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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51972124, 51902115, and 51872101). Research reported in this publication was also supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the KAUST-Drexel Competitive Research Grant (No. OSR-CRG2016-2963 sub 11206). The authors express their gratitude to late Prof. J. Zhou for valuable discussions. The authors thank to the facility support of the Center for Nanoscale Characterization & Devices, WNLO-HUST and the Analysis and Testing Center, HUST.

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