Mesoporous Manganese Oxide Nanowires for High-Capacity, High-Rate, Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage
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Abstract
Arrays of mesoporous manganese dioxide, mp-MnO(2), nanowires were electrodeposited on glass and silicon surfaces using the lithographically patterned nanowire electrodeposition (LPNE) method. The electrodeposition procedure involved the application, in a Mn(ClO(4))(2)-containing aqueous electrolyte, of a sequence of 0.60 V (vs MSE) voltage pulses delineated by 25 s rest intervals. This "multipulse" deposition program produced mp-MnO(2) nanowires with a total porosity of 43-56%. Transmission electron microscopy revealed the presence within these nanowires of a network of 3-5 nm diameter fibrils that were X-ray and electron amorphous, consistent with the measured porosity values. mp-MnO(2) nanowires were rectangular in cross-section with adjustable height, ranging from 21 to 63 nm, and adjustable width ranging from 200 to 600 nm. Arrays of 20 nm × 400 nm mp-MnO(2) nanowires were characterized by a specific capacitance, C(sp), of 923 ± 24 F/g at 5 mV/s and 484 ± 15 F/g at 100 mV/s. These C(sp) values reflected true hybrid electrical energy storage with significant contributions from double-layer capacitance and noninsertion pseudocapacitance (38% for 20 nm × 400 nm nanowires at 5 mV/s) coupled with a Faradaic insertion capacity (62%). These two contributions to the total C(sp) were deconvoluted as a function of the potential scan rate.
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