capacitive properties of mesoporous mn-co oxide derived from a mixed oxalate电容性能的介孔氧化mn-co来自草酸混合.pdfVIP

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2012, 3, 377-383 377 /10.4236/msa.2012.36054 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/msa) Capacitive Properties of Mesoporous Mn-Co Oxide Derived from a Mixed Oxalate * Yong Yan, Bingcai Wu, Cuihong Zheng, Daolai Fang School of Materials Science and Engineering and Anhui Key Laboratory of Metal Materials and Processing, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan, China. * Email: fangdl@ Received March 7th, 2012; revised April 13th, 2012; accepted May 17th, 2012 ABSTRACT A mesoporous Mn-Co oxide for supercapacitors was derived from a mixed oxalate Mn Co C O nH O, which was 0.8 0.2 2 4 2 synthesized by a solid-state coordination reaction at room temperature. The synthesized mixed Mn-Co oxalate was de- composed in air at 250˚C, resulting in a tetragonal spinel Mn-Co oxide with a primary particle size less than 100 nm. 2 1 The obtained Mn-Co oxide presents a mesoporous texture with a specific surface area of 120 m ·g . Electrochemical properties of the Mn-Co oxide electrode were investigated by cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charge/discharge in 6 mol·L1 KOH electrolyte. The Mn-Co oxide electrode delivered specific capacitances of 383 and 225 F·g1 at scan rates of 2 and 50 mV·s1, respectively. Subjected to 500 cycles at a current density of 1.34 A·g1, the symmetrical Mn-Co oxide capacitor showed specific capacitance of 179 F·g1, still retaining ~85% of its ini