Surfactant-free hydrothermal synthesis of hierarchically structured spherical CuBi2O4 as negative electrodes for Li-ion hybrid capacitors

Subramanian Yuvaraj; Kaliyappan Karthikeyan; Dharmalingam Kalpana; Yun Sung Lee; Ramakrishnan Kalai Selvan

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2016.01.060

Surfactant-free hydrothermal synthesis of hierarchically structured spherical CuBi2O4 as negative electrodes for Li-ion hybrid capacitors

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2016 May 1:469:47-56. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.01.060. Epub 2016 Jan 27.

Authors

Subramanian Yuvaraj¹, Kaliyappan Karthikeyan², Dharmalingam Kalpana³, Yun Sung Lee⁴, Ramakrishnan Kalai Selvan⁵

Affiliations

¹ Solid State Ionics and Energy Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 641 046, Tamil Nadu, India.
² Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B9, Canada.
³ Central Electrochemical Research Institute - Madras Unit, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁴ Faculty of Applied Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: leeys@chonnam.ac.kr.
⁵ Solid State Ionics and Energy Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 641 046, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: selvankram@buc.edu.in.

PMID: 26866889
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.01.060

Abstract

Hierarchically structured spherical CuBi2O4 particles were prepared using a facile hydrothermal method without using a surfactant over various hydrothermal reaction periods. The prepared CuBi2O4 samples were examined via X-ray diffraction (XRD), which confirmed the formation of a tetragonal crystal structure. The morphological features were analyzed using field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), which elucidated the construction of the hierarchical microspherical CuBi2O4 particles. The plausible growth mechanism of the hierarchical structure was explained in terms of a time-dependent synthesis process and its crystal structure. The uniform hierarchical CuBi2O4 microspheres were used to fabricate a Li-ion hybrid capacitor (Li-HC) along with activated carbon (AC), the generated device delivers a stable specific capacitance of 26.5 F g(-1) over 1500 cycles at a high current density of 1000 mA g(-1) and a capacity retention of ∼86%. The AC/CB2 Li-ion hybrid cell exhibits high energy density and power density values of 24 W h kg(-1) and 300 W kg(-1), respectively.

Keywords: CuBi(2)O(4); Growth mechanism; Hydrothermal synthesis; Li-ion hybrid capacitor.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't