Influences from Solvents on Charge Storage in Titanium Carbide MXenes
Xuehang Wang, Tyler S. Mathis, Ke Li, Zifeng Lin, Lukas Vlcek, Takeshi Torita, Naresh C. Osti, Christine Hatter, Patrick Urbankowski, Asia Sarycheva, …
Pseudocapacitive energy storage in supercapacitor electrodes differs significantly from the electrical double-layer mechanism of porous carbon materials, which requires a change from conventional thinking when choosing appropriate electrolytes. Here we show how simply changing the solvent of an electrolyte system can drastically influence the pseudocapacitive charge storage of the two-dimensional titanium carbide, Ti3C2 (a representative member of the MXene family). Measurements of the charge stored by Ti3C2 in lithium-containing electrolytes with nitrile-, carbonate- and sulfoxide-based solvents show that the use of a carbonate solvent doubles the charge stored by Ti3C2 when compared with the other solvent systems. We find that the chemical nature of the electrolyte solvent has a profound effect on the arrangement of molecules/ions in Ti3C2, which correlates directly to the total charge being stored. Having nearly completely desolvated lithium ions in Ti3C2 for the carbonate-based electrolyte leads to high volumetric capacitance at high charge- discharge rates, demonstrating the importance of considering all aspects of an electrochemical system during development.
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Title
Influences from Solvents on Charge Storage in Titanium Carbide MXenes
Creators
Xuehang Wang
Tyler S. Mathis
Ke Li
Zifeng Lin
Lukas Vlcek
Takeshi Torita
Naresh C. Osti
Christine Hatter
Patrick Urbankowski
Asia Sarycheva
Madhusudan Tyagi
Eugene Mamontov
Patrice Simon
Yury Gogotsi
Contributors
Yury Gogotsi (Editor)
Publication Details
MXenes, pp 783-810
Publisher
Jenny Stanford Publishing
Number of pages
28
Resource Type
Book chapter
Language
English
Academic Unit
Materials Science and Engineering; A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute