Enhancement of Electrochemical Capacitance of Carbon Nanotubes by Polythionine Modification

Thionine molecules have been electropolymerized onto different types of carbon nanotubes (CNT) using a cyclic voltammetry scanning technology, including multi‐walled carbon nanotubes, single‐walled carbon nanotubes and aligned carbon nanotubes. Results indicate that such prepared nanocomposites have combined the intrinsic faradic capacitance of polythionine with the double layer capacitance of polythionine‐CNT, and thus the polythionine modification obviously enhanced the CNT capacitance. Especially the carboxyl group modified multi‐walled carbon nanotubes, which have made their nanotube tips opened, allowed much more electropolymerization cycles and then obtained a most significant increment in capacitance than the other three ones.     

活性炭二次活化对其电化学容量的影响

为进一步提高作为电化学超级电容器电极材料活性炭的电化学容量, 采用KOH作为二次活性剂, 将所得活性炭进行二次化学活化处理, 从而得到二次活化活性炭. 将原始活性炭材料与二次活化活性炭材料都分别经过系列处理, 组装成电化学超级电容器进行电化学性能测试. 测试结果表明, 二次活化活性炭材料的电化学容量达到145.0 F·g-1(有机电解液), 远远大于原活性炭材料的容量(45.0 F·g-1). 为研究二次活化活性炭材料电化学容量大幅提高的原因, 将这两种材料分别进行微观结构数据测试, 包括比表面积、N2吸脱附等温曲线和孔径分布. 研究结果表明, 二次活化处理大大增加了二次活化活性炭材料在孔径为2-3 nm的中孔分布, 从而证实对于有机电解液, 电极材料在2-3 nm的中孔对其电化学容量的提高具有重要意义.     

A Gold Nanoparticles–Enhanced Carbon Nanotubes Electrochemical Chiral Sensor

The field of enantioselective recognition directly using inherently chiral single‐walled carbon nanotubes (cSWCNTs) still remains unexplored. Herein, the insertion of size‐controlled gold nanoparticles (GNPs) to cSWCNTs brings about superior conductivity, high stability, and excellent electrocatalytic ability, thus an enhanced sensitivity for chiral sensing. The practicability of the GNPs/cSWCNTs based electrochemical sensor was validated by chirally recognizing 3,4‐dihydroxyphenylalanine and tyrosine as model molecules.     

电化学混合电容器用新型聚吡咯/介孔碳纳米复合电极

采用介孔碳CMK-3作为载体,通过化学原位聚合的方法制备出一种新型的聚吡咯/介孔碳(PPy-CMK-3)纳米复合材料.将该纳米复合材料作为正极,配以介孔碳CMK-3为负极和1.0mol·L-1NaNO3中性电解液,组装成为电化学混合电容器.电化学测试表明:在5.0mA·cm-2电流密度和1.4V充放电电位条件下,其放电比容量达57F·g-1,电容器功率密度为2.5×102W·kg-1,能量密度达17Wh·kg-1.当电流密度从5.0mA·cm-2增加至50mA·cm-2时,电容器的容量保持率在80%以上,显示高倍率充放电特性优异.此外,聚吡咯-介孔碳/介孔碳电化学混合电容器易活化,并具有优异的充放电效率和良好的循环稳定性能.     

定向多壁碳纳米管电化学储氢研究

利用恒流充放电、循环伏安曲线(CV)和电化学阻抗技术(EIS)等方法对定向多壁碳纳米管(AMWCNTs)储氢的电化学行为及其储氢机制进行了探讨.研究表明,定向AMWCNTs-Cu电极有较高的电化学储氢性能,其储氢容量在1500mA/g的电流密度下可以达到1162mA·h/g.定向AMWCNTs的电化学储氢能力强与其空间结构有关,而铜粉的加入有利于提高碳纳米管的电催化反应表面积和电极电化学反应活性,有利于氢在碳纳米管中扩散,从而提高了碳纳米管电极材料的储氢量.     

对苯二酚在多壁碳纳米管修饰电极上的电化学行为研究

采用循环伏安法、微分脉冲伏安法、计时安培法研究了对苯二酚在多壁碳纳米管修饰电极上的电化学行为,计算得到了碳纳米管修饰电极有效面积Aeff=23.9mm2以及对苯二酚电化学氧化过程的一些重要参数:传递系数α=0.630;控制步骤的反应电子数nα=1.03;反应速率常数k′=3.74×10-2cm/s;扩散系数D=2.85×10-6cm2/s。实验结果显示,本实验条件下对苯二酚在碳纳米管修饰电极上的氧化反应受扩散过程控制,为前行化学反应(CE),对苯二酚在失去电子之前先经历了一个脱氢的过程。微分脉冲伏安结果显示,催化氧化峰电流与对苯二酚浓度在1×10-4~6×10-6mol/L范围内呈良好的线性关系,检出限达4.0×10-7mol/L(S/N=3)。     

二氧化锰含量对活性炭电极电化学性能的影响

本文采用液相法、热分解MnCO₃法以及电解沉积法制备不同二氧化锰粉末,并将其与活性炭复合,应用于水系超级电容器. 使用X射线衍射（XRD）、扫描电子显微镜（SEM）技术对材料形貌进行表征. 使用循环伏安法以及恒流充放电法对其电化学性能进行测试. 实验数据表明,α-MnO₂（质量分数70%）掺杂活性炭电极的最大比容量为151 F•g^-1,β-MnO₂（质量分数60%）掺杂活性炭电极的最大比容量为172F•g^-1,γ-MnO₂（质量分数50%）掺杂活性炭电极的最大比容量为141F•g^-1,但二氧化锰粉末对电极内阻的影响呈无规律性.     

Electrochemical Behavior of Deoxycholic Acid on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Modified Electrode

Electrochemical reduction of Deoxycholic acid (DCA), as important biological molecule has been studied in 0.05 M KH₂PO₄ aqueous methanol solution (1 : 1, v/v) at a multiwalled carbon nanotubes modified electrode. Based on cyclic voltammetry, Tafel plot, the possible mechanism of the electrochemical reduction of DCA was investigated, as well as DCA mechanical calculations. The transfer coefficient, α, the exchange current density, i₀, the diffusion coefficient, D0 at the MWCNT modified GCE were determined as 0.505, 5.655×10^?7 A/cm² and 1.579×10^?5 cm²/s, respectively. The results of chronoamperometric suggested that the reductive product of DCA was the corresponding hydroxymethyl compound in an over‐all four‐electron process.     

碳纳米管的电化学贮氢性能研究

研究了碳纳米管电极的电化学性能 ,其电化学储氢量达到 2 0 0mAh·g 1且具有高的电化学活性和良好的循环寿命 .采用循环伏安法研究了氢在碳纳米管电极上吸附 /氧化机理 .     

碳纳米管微结构的改变对其容量性能的影响

以KOH为活性剂，通过在高温下将碳纳米管进行活化处理来实现对碳纳米管管壁结构的改变，得到了比表面积和孔容分别是活化处理前约3倍和1.5倍的活性碳纳米管.将活化处理前后两种碳纳米管分别制作成电化学超级电容器电极，在充满氩气的无水手套箱组装成模拟电化学超级电容器，在恒流充放电模式下进行电化学可逆容量的测试，发现活性碳纳米管的电化学容量远高于活化前碳纳米管，是它的2倍.从而发现碳纳米管被打断，管壁变粗糙的活性碳纳米管比一般碳纳米管更适合用于电化学超级电容器电极材料.     

一种估算多壁碳纳米管电化学容量的方法

Five kinds of multi-walled carbon nanotubes were prepared by CVD(Chemical Vapour Deposition) and purified under the same conditions, then were used as electrodes for super capacitors in order to compare their performance. The differences measured in terms of specific capacitance by galvanostatic cycling were presented, porosity measurements using nitrogen at 77 K made on carbon nanotubes allowd a better understanding of the electrochemical behavior of these carbon nanotubes. The experiment results show that pore diameter in the range of more than 3nm is required to maximize the capacitance in the electrolyte of 1.0 mol·L^-1 LiClO₄/EC+DEC(V_EC∶V_DEC=1∶1), and the BET surface area contributed by this extent is almost linear with the specific capacitance, in which an average value is about 0.11 F·m^-2, and the specific capacitance estimated from above is very close to the value by experiment.     

碳纳米管/聚苯胺/石墨烯复合纳米碳纸及其电化学电容行为

通过真空抽滤的方法制备碳纳米管纸,并对其进行循环伏安电化学氧化处理.以该电化学氧化处理的碳纳米管(CV-CNT)纸为基体,采用电化学聚合沉积聚苯胺(PANI),随后吸附石墨烯(GR),制备具有三明治夹心结构的碳纳米管/聚苯胺/石墨烯(CV-CNT/PANI/GR)复合纳米碳纸.该结构外层为GR,内层由PANI包裹的CNT形成网络骨架,充分发挥三者各自优势构建柔性电极材料.用场发射扫描电镜(FE-SEM)、透射电子显微镜(TEM)、拉曼光谱对其形貌与结构进行表征,并测试其电化学性能.研究发现:PANI呈纳米晶须状,并均匀包裹在CV-CNT表面;该复合碳纸具有良好的电容特性、大电流充放电特性以及良好的循环稳定性能.电流密度为0.5A·g-1时,比电容可达415F·g-1;20A·g-1时仍能保持106F·g-1的比电容.由于GR的保护作用,1000次循环之后较CV-CNT/PANI保持更高的有效比电容.该CV-CNT/PANI/GR复合碳纸展现出在高性能超级电容器柔性电极材料的潜在应用价值.     

活性炭/钴氧化物干凝胶电化学电容器性能

以高性能活性炭作为负极材料, 将颗粒平均粒径为40~60 nm的纳米钴氧化物干凝胶作为正极材料组成电化学电容器, 研究了电容器在7 mol/L的KOH水溶液中的电化学性能, 其充放电电压可以达到1.4~1.6 V, 以材料本身重量计算的比能量和比功率分别达到15.4 W·h/kg和23.5 kW/kg.     

Fabrication of an Electrochemical Sensor Based on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Almotriptan

In the present work, the electrochemical behavior of an antimigraine drug, almotriptan malate (ALM), on a multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) film modified glassy carbon electrode under cyclic voltammetry was described for the first time. A significant enhancement in the oxidation peak current of ALM was noticed at MWCNT‐GCE. This property was exploited to develop a simple, sensitive and time‐saving differential pulse voltammetric method for the determination of ALM in bulk and pharmaceutical samples. A linear relationship was observed between concentration and peak current with a correlation coefficient of 0.9915 in the range of 0.25–37.5 µM ALM.     

稻壳多孔碳材料的电容性能及模型计算

采用NaOH和H₃PO₄化学活化法, 由廉价的稻壳制备了2种高比表面积的介孔活性碳, 测试了其比表面积和平均孔径, 利用循环伏安、 恒流充放电和交流阻抗测试了其电化学性能, 其比电容分别达到145.8和168.5 F/g. 利用一种多分支的三级孔道模型对其进行交流阻抗谱拟合, 拟合结果符合度较高, 表明该模型对分析活性碳电极结构有一定指导意义.     

手性碳纳米管能带特性的研究

探讨手性（chiral）单层碳纳米管（SWNTs）电子结构的主要特点。提出了确定与Fermi能级EF=0相交或相近的子能带指数J及相关的波矢ky值的方法。并直接从A-B效应出发,导出了任意手性角的SWNTs在磁场中发生金属—半导体连续转换的条件,同时对其能隙变化规律进行了详细讨论。     

纳米碳管的电化学贮锂性能

用透射电镜、高分辩透射电镜、X射线衍射和拉曼光谱表征了用催化热解法制备的纳米碳管的结构,研究了纳米碳管的电化学嵌脱锂性能.以纳米级铁粉为催化剂热解乙炔气得到的纳米碳管石墨化程度较低,结构中存在褶皱的石墨层、乱层石墨和微孔等缺陷,具有较高的贮锂容量,初始容量为640mAh/g,但循环稳定性较差.而以纳米级氧化铁粉为催化剂热解乙烯得到的纳米碳管结构比较规则,循环稳定性较好,但贮锂容量较低,初始容量为282 mAh/g.讨论了纳米碳管的结构对其温度特性和不同电流密度下的充放电容量的影响.     

Electrochemical Reduction of Oxygen on Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes Electrode in Alkaline Solution

The multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) electrode was constructed using polytetrafluoroethylene as binder, and the electrochemical reductive behavior of oxygen in alkaline solution was first examined on this electrode. Compared with other carbon materials, MWNTs show higher electrocatalytic activity, and the reversibility of O2 reduction reaction is greatly improved. The experiments reveal that the electrochemical reduction of O2 to HO2 is controlled by adsorption. The preliminary results illustrate the potential application of MWNTs in fuel cells.     

碳纳米管和石墨在电化学嵌锂过程中的协同效应

锂电子电池;负极材料;碳纳米管和石墨在电化学嵌锂过程中的协同效应     

电化学间接测量法研究谷胱甘肽在多壁碳纳米管和活性炭上的吸附

选取谷胱甘肽(GSH)作为小分子代表物,利用Cr(VI)与GSH的相互作用,即K2Cr2O7/H2SO4溶液加入GSH前后Cr(VI)还原峰电流值的差异,通过差分脉冲伏安法(DPV)的测定,可以间接测出GSH的含量.尝试将这种电化学间接测量法应用于研究多壁碳纳米管(MWCNTs)与商业活性炭(AC)对GSH的吸附行为.利用该方法可以确立GSH在二者的吸附量(Q)与吸附平衡浓度(Ce)的关系,绘制吸附等温曲线.根据Langmuir方程和Freundlich方程的拟合分析,证明了与商业活性炭相比,GSH在MWCNTs上的吸附更倾向Freundlich模型,即多分子层吸附.利用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)和透射电子显微镜(TEM)进行形貌表征,发现MWCNTs具有发达的堆积孔结构,有利于GSH小分子内扩散和吸附,与实验结果一致.