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Pseudocapacitance of Vanadium Carbide MXenes in Basic and Acidic Aqueous Electrolytes
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Pseudocapacitance of Vanadium Carbide MXenes in Basic and Acidic Aqueous Electrolytes

Teng Zhang, Kyle Matthews, Armin VahidMohammadi, Meikang Han and Yury Gogotsi
ACS energy letters, v 7(11), pp 3864-3870
11 Nov 2022

Abstract

Pseudocapacitive charge storage with Ti3C2T x in protic electrolytes has received significant attention. However, other MXene compositions have received less attention so far. Additionally, pseudocapacitance of MXenes has only been reported in acidic electrolytes. Herein, we report on the pseudocapacitance of two vanadium carbide MXenes (V2CT x and V4C3T x ) in various basic electrolytes and sulfuric acid, showing distinct redox couples in their cyclic voltammograms. Freestanding V2CT x film electrodes could deliver gravimetric capacitances above 250 F g–1 in different basic electrolytes with the highest capacitance of 386 F g–1 in 1 M LiOH at 2 mV s–1. Moreover, the cycle life performance showed an increasing capacitance over thousands of cycles (121% of initial capacitance after 60,000 cycles at 10 A g–1 in 6 M KOH). Both materials also exhibit higher capacitances than Ti3C2T x in 3 M sulfuric acid, with 475 and 284 F g–1 for V2CT x and V4C3T x , respectively.

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