Ion transport from water-in-salt electrolyte through porosity of hierarchical porous carbons unraveled by solid-state NMR

Electrical double-layer capacitors bring numerous strengths to the energy storage landscape but have limited use due to their high unit energy cost and low specific energy. Water-in-salt electrolytes have been recently purported as an option to provide more affordable energy storage, but high viscos...

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Autores: Moreno-Fernández, Gelines, Mysyk, Roman, Díez Nogués, Noel, Carriazo, Daniel, López del Amo, Juan Miguel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/305058
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/305058
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85121530854
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Electrical double-layer capacitor
Hierarchical porous carbon
Solid-state NMR
Water-in-salt electrolyte
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Sumario:Electrical double-layer capacitors bring numerous strengths to the energy storage landscape but have limited use due to their high unit energy cost and low specific energy. Water-in-salt electrolytes have been recently purported as an option to provide more affordable energy storage, but high viscosity and limited conductivity hinder their direct use in high-power devices such as capacitors. By using solid-state NMR and electrolyte-tuned porosity carbons, we demonstrate, at the molecular level, a drastic impact of relative pore/ion size on proper electrolyte propagation deep down the pore volume. The NMR results also provide a rationale for the radical changes in low-and high-rate electrochemical response observed using carbons with differently nanosized pores and a water-in-salt electrolyte.