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Waste plastic-derived FWCNT-NiMgAl composite for supercapacitor application

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2022, 32(6), pp.1541-1557
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-022-00392-0
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : May 27, 2022
  • Accepted : August 14, 2022
  • Published : October 1, 2022

Shah Aunggat 1 Mao Yuvraj Maphrio 1 Singh L. Robindro 2 Gogoi Manashjit 3 Mahato Mrityunjoy 1

1India 공과대학 기초과학 및 사회과학부 물리학부
2India 공과대학 나노기술과
3North Eastern Hill University

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ABSTRACT

In this work, we report a direct preparation of a few-walled carbon nanotube (FWCNTs) and NiMgAl composites namely FWCNT-NiMgAl by pyrolysis of waste high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic at 800 °C with NiMgAl-layered double hydroxide (LDH) as catalysts. The composite formation is carried out in a single step using our lab-developed pyrolysis reactor. The NiMgAl-LDH catalyst was prepared by co-precipitation method and the FWCNTs were grown on the NiMgAl-LDH catalyst with FWCNT yield of 10% and FWCNT-NiMgAl composite yield of 55% whose quality is determined by Raman ID/IG ratio of 2.57. The average outer and inner diameter of the FWCNT are found to be 5.5 nm and 2.9 nm, respectively, from TEM and 2.92 nm from the outer RBM (radial breathing mode) band, which indicates the formation of a few-walled CNTs. FWCNT-NiMgAl is used for the fabrication of flexible supercapacitor electrodes on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) sheet which achieved a specific capacitance of 432 Fg−1 in a wide potential range (ΔV = 2) at a scan rate of 5 mV s−1 in 2 M KOH electrolyte with a high energy density of 240 Wh kg−1, whereas NiMgAl displayed a capacitance of 200 Fg−1 with an energy density of 111 Wh kg−1. The diffusion-type charge storage mechanism (pseudocapacitance) is found to be dominant with contributions of 73.2% and 69.75% for NiMgAl and FWCNT-NiMgAl, respectively. The highest specific capacitance and energy density are obtained for NiMgAl in 2 M KCl and for FWCNT-NiMgAl in 2 M NaOH electrolytes. However, the largest potential window is observed in KOH electrolyte for both NiMgAl and FWCNT-NiMgAl with value of ΔV = 2 V. The electrode material shows good stability in acidic electrolytes and also shows good capacitive stability at high frequencies maintaining a phase angle of 70°. The present work is a novel approach to fabricate low-cost multifunctional carbon composite nanomaterials and will contribute to the research on low-cost waste-derived CNT composite preparation and its application in flexible energy storage devices.

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