Direct Structure–Performance Comparison of All‐Carbon Potassium and Sodium Ion Capacitors
Abstract
A hybrid ion capacitor (HIC) based on potassium ions (K+) is a new high-power intermediate energy device that may occupy a unique position on the Ragone chart space. Here, a direct performance comparison of a potassium ion capacitor (KIC) versus the better-known sodium ion capacitor is provided. Tests are performed with an asymmetric architecture based on bulk ion insertion, partially ordered, dense carbon anode (hard carbon, HC) opposing N- and O-rich ion adsorption, high surface area, cathode (activated carbon, AC). A classical symmetric “supercapacitor-like” configuration AC–AC is analyzed in parallel. For asymmetric K-based HC–AC devices, there are significant high-rate limitations associated with ion insertion into the anode, making it much inferior to Na-based HC–AC devices. A much larger charge–discharge hysteresis (overpotential), more than an order of magnitude higher impedance RSEI, and much worse cyclability are observed. However, K-based AC–AC devices obtained on-par energy, power, and cyclability with their Na counterpart. Therefore, while KICs are extremely scientifically interesting, more work is needed to tailor the structure of “Na-inherited” dense carbon anodes and electrolytes for satisfactory K ion insertion. Conversely, it should be possible to utilize many existing high surface area adsorption carbons for fast rate K application.
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- Center for Advanced Electric Energy Technologies (CAEET)School of Materials and EnergyUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 611731 China
- Chemical &, Biomolecular EngineeringClarkson University Potsdam NY 13699 USA
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- Clarkson Univ., Potsdam, NY (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1508658
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- OSTI ID: 1508660; OSTI ID: 1612831
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- DE‐SC0018074; SC0018074
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Advanced Science Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2198-3844
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Chemistry; Science & Technology - Other Topics; Materials Science; lithium ion capacitors; potassium ion batteries; potassium ion capacitors; sodium ion batteries; sodium ion capacitors
Citation Formats
Xu, Ziqiang, Wu, Mengqiang, Chen, Zhi, Chen, Cheng, Yang, Jian, Feng, Tingting, Paek, Eunsu, and Mitlin, David. Direct Structure–Performance Comparison of All‐Carbon Potassium and Sodium Ion Capacitors. Germany: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1002/advs.201802272.
Xu, Ziqiang, Wu, Mengqiang, Chen, Zhi, Chen, Cheng, Yang, Jian, Feng, Tingting, Paek, Eunsu, & Mitlin, David. Direct Structure–Performance Comparison of All‐Carbon Potassium and Sodium Ion Capacitors. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201802272
Xu, Ziqiang, Wu, Mengqiang, Chen, Zhi, Chen, Cheng, Yang, Jian, Feng, Tingting, Paek, Eunsu, and Mitlin, David. Wed .
"Direct Structure–Performance Comparison of All‐Carbon Potassium and Sodium Ion Capacitors". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201802272.
@article{osti_1508658,
title = {Direct Structure–Performance Comparison of All‐Carbon Potassium and Sodium Ion Capacitors},
author = {Xu, Ziqiang and Wu, Mengqiang and Chen, Zhi and Chen, Cheng and Yang, Jian and Feng, Tingting and Paek, Eunsu and Mitlin, David},
abstractNote = {A hybrid ion capacitor (HIC) based on potassium ions (K+) is a new high-power intermediate energy device that may occupy a unique position on the Ragone chart space. Here, a direct performance comparison of a potassium ion capacitor (KIC) versus the better-known sodium ion capacitor is provided. Tests are performed with an asymmetric architecture based on bulk ion insertion, partially ordered, dense carbon anode (hard carbon, HC) opposing N- and O-rich ion adsorption, high surface area, cathode (activated carbon, AC). A classical symmetric “supercapacitor-like” configuration AC–AC is analyzed in parallel. For asymmetric K-based HC–AC devices, there are significant high-rate limitations associated with ion insertion into the anode, making it much inferior to Na-based HC–AC devices. A much larger charge–discharge hysteresis (overpotential), more than an order of magnitude higher impedance RSEI, and much worse cyclability are observed. However, K-based AC–AC devices obtained on-par energy, power, and cyclability with their Na counterpart. Therefore, while KICs are extremely scientifically interesting, more work is needed to tailor the structure of “Na-inherited” dense carbon anodes and electrolytes for satisfactory K ion insertion. Conversely, it should be possible to utilize many existing high surface area adsorption carbons for fast rate K application.},
doi = {10.1002/advs.201802272},
journal = {Advanced Science},
number = 12,
volume = 6,
place = {Germany},
year = {Wed Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201802272
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