Issue 34, 2012

Investigations on silver/polyaniline electrodes for electrochemical supercapacitors

Abstract

Polyaniline (PANI) and silver doped polyaniline (Ag/PANI) thin films were deposited on stainless steel substrates by a dip coating technique. To study the effect of doping concentration of Ag on the specific capacitance of PANI the concentration of Ag was varied from 0.3 to 1.2 weight percent. Fourier transform-infrared and Fourier transform-Raman spectroscopy, and energy dispersion X-ray techniques were used for the phase identification and determination of the doping content in the PANI films, respectively. The surface morphology of the films was examined by Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy, which revealed a nanofiber like structure for PANI and nanofibers with bright spots of Ag particles for the Ag/PANI films. There was decrease in the room temperature electrical resistivity of the Ag/PANI films of the order of 102 with increasing Ag concentration. The supercapacitive behavior of the electrodes was tested in a three electrode system using 1.0 M H2SO4 electrolyte. The specific capacitance increased from 285 F gāˆ’1 (for PANI) to 512 F gāˆ’1 for Ag/PANI at 0.9 weight percent doping of Ag, owing to the synergic effect of PANI and silver nanoparticles. This work demonstrates a simple strategy of improving the specific capacitance of polymer electrodes and may also be easily adopted for other dopants.

Graphical abstract: Investigations on silver/polyaniline electrodes for electrochemical supercapacitors

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 May 2012
Accepted
05 Jul 2012
First published
09 Jul 2012

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012,14, 11886-11895

Investigations on silver/polyaniline electrodes for electrochemical supercapacitors

D. S. Patil, J. S. Shaikh, S. A. Pawar, R. S. Devan, Y. R. Ma, A. V. Moholkar, J. H. Kim, R. S. Kalubarme, C. J. Park and P. S. Patil, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 11886 DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41757J

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