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Recent progress and development prospects of mobile current sources
expand article infoVladimir V. Sleptsov, Lev V. Kozhitov§, Anna O. Diteleva, Dmitry Yu. Kukushkin, Alena V. Popkova|
‡ Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow, Russia
§ National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”, Moscow, Russia
| JSC “Research Institute NPO” LUCH”, Podolsk, Russia
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Abstract

Physicochemical fundamentals have been developed for the basic design solutions and fabrication technologies of prospective electrolytic power cells with a reusable cell capacity of 350–500 W·h/kg at the first stage and 1000 W·h/kg at the second stage. Along with conventional chemical current sources and ionistors, there are emerging high-performance supercapacitor structures with thin dielectric in the double electric layer and hybrid capacitors in which energy is accumulated in the double electric layer and due to electrochemical processes. This approach reduces the internal resistance of the electrolytic cells thus decreasing the heat emission during operation and therefore providing for a higher specific energy capacity and operation safety, shorter charging time and an increase in specific power. Prospective anode is a nanostructured electrode material in the form of a carbon matrix filled with a nanostructured chemically active material. Promising carbon matrix fillers are Li and its alloys, Si, Al, Na, Sn, Mg, Zn, Ni, Co, Ag, as well as a range of other materials and their compounds. The effect of carbon material specific surface area, dielectric permeability and chemically active material addition on the specific energy capacity has been studied. Theoretical specific energy capacity of metal/air hybrid capacitors has been calculated. Thin-film technological system has been designed for new generation electrode materials in the form of carbon matrices with highly developed surface containing thin tunneling dielectrics and chemically active materials on dielectric surface.

Keywords

hybrid capacitor, current sources, energy storage devices, carbon material, electrode materials, nanustructuring, nanoparticle, carbon matrix, chemically active material

1. Introduction

Sustained development of electrically driven vehicles, individual power supply systems for residential and industrial buildings, security systems and other applications requires, according to experts, reusable power sources with a specific energy capacity of 350–500 W·h/kg at the first stage and 1000 W·h/kg at the second stage. The highest capacity power sources manufactured by thick-film technologies are currently lithium chemical current sources (LCS) the highest energy capacity of which reaches 260 W·h/kg [1–3]. This technology is based on the synthesis of electrolytic cell electrodes by deposition of a 200–400 mm chemically active material layer on a metallic foil acting as a current collector [4–8]. Specific energy capacity growth has seen a stagnation over the recent 10 years while the last year has demonstrated a trend of noticeably reducing the specific energy capacity aimed at ensuring higher device operation safety and lifetime. One can therefore assume that the existing thick film technologies have almost completely exhausted their energy capacity, operation safety and charging time reduction potential. Thus, achieving the above-listed specific energy capacity figures requires using new technologies, materials and designs to deliver a 2–4-fold specific energy capacity growth as compared with existing commercial chemical current sources (CCS) [9–12]. A prospective element base development roadmap [13] showed that the first stage will give a CCS performance growth in 2020– 2025 at the expense of anode specific power growth. The anode structure will change fundamentally, to a carbon matrix with a high specific surface area (500–2000 m2/g) filled with nanoparticles (Si, Ge, Sn, P and Sb) [1, 6–18]. Figure 1 shows example of a graphene-based elastic matrix with silicon nanoparticle filler used as a CCS anode, and Fig. 2 shows the energy capacity of that CCS anode as a function of number of cycles [1, 2, 17, 18].

Figure 1.

Appearance of high specific surface area carbon matrix anode with silicon nanoparticles

Figure 2.

Energy capacity of high specific surface area carbon matrix CCS with silicon nanoparticles as a function of number of cycles

Thus a promising CCS anode design is a nanostructured electrode material in the form of a carbon matrix filled with a nanostructured chemically active material. Since an elastic matrix has a high specific surface area, energy accumulation in the electrode material occurs by two mechanisms (due to electrochemical reactions and in the double electric layer (DEL)). As a result the electrochemical cell for 3–5-generation current sources is conceived to be a hybrid capacitor. Further CCS specific energy capacity growth to 500 W·h/kg and higher is associated, according to the roadmap, with the development of metal/sulfur and metal/air CCS in which the anode is connected to the cathode delivering sulfur or oxygen, respectively. The electrode materials for the CCS will be high specific surface area carbon matrices filled with functional materials in the form of chemically active and auxiliary materials. Promising carbon matrix filler materials are Li and its alloys, Si, Al, Na, Sn, Mg, Zn, Ni, Co, Ag and a number of other materials and their compounds [19–28]. The emergence of a new electrolytic materials generation entails a dramatic increase in the number of electrochemical power cell design options. Along with conventional CCS and ionistors, there are emerging high-performance supercapacitor structures (HPSS) with thin dielectric in the double electric layer and hybrid capacitors in which energy is accumulated in the DEL and due to electrochemical processes. This approach reduces the internal resistance of the electrolytic cells thus decreasing the heat emission during operation and therefore providing greater specific energy capacity and operation safety, shorter charging time and specific power output growth.

Since the research into current sources implementing DEL and electrochemical process based energy accumulation mechanisms has led to the development of multiple electrochemical cell design options (CCS, ionistors, high-performance supercapacitors with thin tunneling dielectric in DEL and hybrid capacitors), there is the necessity to develop physical and mathematical models describing the basic design, material science and technical solutions of the prospective element base.

2. Theoretical analysis of prospective electrolytic cell designs

Theoretical analysis of energy accumulation in electrode materials of hybrid capacitors based on a thermodynamical approach implying the summation of all energy types in the system in question allows writing the energy balance equation for the hybrid capacitor as follows:

CUc22+MiNi=ILULt+Ic2RESRt, (1)

where C is the capacity, Uc is the capacitor voltage, MiNi is the product of chemical potential and the number of particles, IL is the load current, UL is the load voltage, t is the charging/discharging time, Ic is the capacitor current and RESR is the electrical resistance of the capacitor structure.

Equation (1) describes the ideal capacitor free of leakage currents. To simplify the problem one can consider the operation of that capacitor for minimum charging/discharging time. Simple transformations of Eq. (1) yield the following equation of the capacitor energy Еc:

Ec=εε02dUc2+iUct-Ic2RESRS2tS, (2)

where ε is the dielectric permeability, ε0 is the relative dielectric permeability, i is the electrochemical reaction rate, Uc is the capacitor voltage, t is the charging/discharging time, Ic is the capacitor current, RESR is the electrical resistance of the capacitor structure, S is the surface area and d is the double electric layer thickness.

The electrochemical reaction rate (in A/cm2 or A/m2) is commonly related to a specific surface area and defined as current density:

i=IS.

It can be seen that the specific energy capacity of a hybrid capacitor is determined by the sum of the interrelated parameters RESR, S, Uc, Ic and t.

Equation (2) describes the ideal hybrid capacitor free of leakage currents. To simplify the task one can consider the operation of that capacitor for minimum charging/discharging time.

FractalCalculation software was designed for capacitor parameter calculation in Python programming language, code UTF-8. Python is one of the most widely used cross-platform programming languages. FractalCalculation incorporates two blocks with software code describing software operation principle: 1) data calculation, acquisition and displaying algorithm and 2) UI (user interface) software code or, simply, what the user works with.

Based on the mathematical model developed, the specific energy capacity of prospective electrolytic cell designs was calculated: 1) ionistors, i.e., high-performance supercapacitors the specific energy capacity of which is determined, primarily, by the specific surface area of the electrode materials; 2) high-performance supercapacitors with thin tunneling dielectric in the double electric layer, the dielectric permeability of which can be varied over a wide range; 3) hybrid capacitors in which energy is accumulated in the DEL and due to chemical reactions; 4) hybrid capacitors with thin tunneling dielectric in the DEL, the dielectric permeability of which can be varied over a wide range and energy is accumulated in the DEL and due to chemical reactions.

2.1. Ionistors: high-performance supercapacitors

The specific energy capacity of ionistors is determined, primarily, by the specific surface area of the electrode materials. The effect of the specific surface area of the electrode material (300–3000 m2/g) on the specific energy capacity of cells was studied for a constant dielectric permeability using the energy balance equation and the software designed. The unknown parameter for the calculation was the thickness d for water and polymer electrolyte cells. Table 1 summarizes the parameters of the model water and polymer electrolyte capacitors fabricated in which the cell electrode material was Busofit type porous carbon material with a 1200 m2/g specific surface area. The electrical parameters of the cells were measured on a ESK-2.21 cyclic test bed [29, 30].

Table 1.

Parameters of water and polymer electrolyte cells

Cell # Busofit fabric area (cm2) Weight of Busofit fabric with preset dimensions (g) Outer surface area (m2) Charging / discharging voltage (V) Charging / discharging current (A) Time (s) Capacity (F) Energy capacity (W·h/kg) ESR (Ohm) Weight (g) Software-calculated parameters
d (nm) i
Water electrolyte cells (dielectric permeability εwat ~ 80)
1 60 1.43 1716 2.5 0.15 865 87 4.2 1.47 18 13.95 0
2 81 1.93 2316 2.5 0.15 2000 141 4.9 0.315 25 11.61 0
3 400 9.66 11592 2.5 0.15 6496 521 4.5 0.457 100 15.83 0
Polymer electrolyte cells (dielectric permeability εpolym ~ 8)
1 75 1.8 2160 4 0.5 460 151 16 1.0 20 1.1 0
2 192 4.61 5532 4.5 0.5 1200 355 21 1.5 46 0.9 0
3 340 8.1 9720 3.5 0.5 2400 570 12 0.3 80 0.6 0

The specific energy capacity of the cells (Esp, W·h/kg) was calculated using the formula

Esp=E3600m=εε02dUc2+iUct-Ic2RESRS2tS3600m, (3)

where m is the cell weight.

Since the calculation is conducted for capacitors, iUct = 0 and Eq. (3) can be rewritten as follows:

Esp=E3600m=εε02dUc2-Ic2RESRS2tS3600m, (4)

The thickness of the DEL calculated using Eq. (4) was dav.wat ~ 13.8 for water electrolyte specimens and dav.polym ~ 1.0 for polymer electrolyte specimens.

Based on the calculated and experimental data (Table 1) we studied the effect of an increase in the specific surface area of the electrode material from 300 to 3000 m2/g on the specific energy capacity of the cells (Fig. 3).

Figure 3.

Specific energy capacity of water and polymer electrolyte cells as a function of Busofit specific surface area

The obtained curves allow determining the maximum theoretical energy capacity of the cell. The results suggest that no breakthrough in energy capacity growth was made.

2.2. High-performance supercapacitors with thin-tunneling dielectric in DEL

The dielectric permeability of this type of capacitors varies over a wide range. Such material can be for example potassium polytitanate (PPT). At a TiO2/K2O molar ratio of 3.7 to 6.6 this material is in the form of layered scale-shaped particles 200–800 nm in width and 10–40 in thickness. The electrical conductivity and dielectric permeability of PPT may exhibit figures typical of solid state electrolytes, semiconductors or dielectrics. The dielectric permeability of PPT may vary from 103 to 109 (Fig. 4) [31, 32].

The effect of an increase in the dielectric permeability (ε ~ 5 · 105) due to the formation of a 10–20 nm thin-tunneling dielectric layer was studied.

The calculations were made for cells with an electrode material specific surface area of 1200 m2/g. Figure 5 shows the specific energy capacity of water and polymer electrolyte cells as a function of dielectric permeability for different specimens at 4.5 V.

Study of the effect of an increase in the dielectric permeability (up to 105) due to the formation of a 10–20 nm thin-tunneling dielectric layer showed that the maximum theoretical specific energy capacity can reach 9 kW·h/kg for water electrolyte capacitors and 30 kW·h/kg for polymer electrolyte capacitors. These results are quite approximate since the mathematical model still has a space for improvement by taking into account the effect of electrolyte and working voltage, potentially providing for a significant breakthrough in energy capacity. One should also bear in mind that the presence of a thin dielectric layer in the DEL may increase the working voltage to far above the CCS-typical figures. For example, the working voltage of aluminum capacitors may grow to 1000 V and that of tantalum ones, to 70 V.

Figure 4.

Fe-modified potassium polytitanate

Figure 5.

Specific energy capacity of (a) water and (b) polymer electrolyte cells as a function of dielectric permeability for different thin-tunneling dielectric thickness

2.3. Hybrid capacitors

Energy is accumulated in hybrid capacitors in the DEL and due to chemical reactions. For energy capacity calculations, LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 additive deposited onto the cathode material of capacitors was used as a chemically active material (CAM) (Specimens 1, 2 and 3) and the parameters of that cathode material are summarized in Table 2.

Table 2.

Specific energy capacities of hybrid capacitors with CAM additions

Specimen No. Capacitor weight (g) Specific energy capacity without CAM Esp (W·h/kg) Hybrid capacitor specific energy capacity at Ehybr (W·h/kg)
CAM weight 5 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 15 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 35 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 50 % of hybrid capacitor weight
Water electrolyte cellswat ~ 80, dav.wat ~ 13.8 nm)
1 18 4.2 28 78 178 253
2 25 4.9 28 78 178 253
3 100 4.5 28 78 178 253
Polymer electrolyte cellspolym ~ 8, dav.polym ~ 1.0 nm)
1 20 16 49 125 276 390
2 46 21 52 128 280 394
3 80 12 46 122 274 388

The energy capacity ECCS is 760 W·h/kg for LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 battery cathode and 500 W·h/kg for water electrolyte cells at 2.5 V. This allows calculating the energy capacity delivered by the CAM additive mCAM which is k percents of the hybrid capacitor weight.

Em. CCS = ECCSmCAM,

where mCAM = kmhybr.

The specific capacitor energy capacity Em.cap per its weight m can be calculated using the following formula:

Em. cap = Espm.

The specific energy capacities Esp of capacitors having the weight m are summarized in Table 1.

Since the weight of the cathode material is 50% of the cell weight, the hybrid specimen weight mhybr can be calculated using the following formula:

m hybr = m + mCCS = m + 0.5m.

The specific energy capacity of a hybrid capacitor with CAM is calculated as follows:

Ehybr=Em.cap+Em.CCSmhybr. (5)

Table 2 shows calculated specific energy capacities of hybrid capacitors with a 5–50% CAM percentage of cell weight. Figure 6 shows specific energy capacities of water and polymer electrolyte hybrid capacitors with CAM additions of 0 to 50% of cell weight.

Figure 6.

Specific energy capacity of (a) water and (b) polymer electrolyte hybrid capacitors as a function of CAM content

The calculations suggest that the energy capacity of electrochemical cells can grow to max. 350–400 W·h/kg. Further growth of the specific energy capacity requires transition to lithium/air CCS cell design and new technologies and materials. It should be noted that in that case, thin-film technologies are also helpful for solving the task.

2.4. Hybrid capacitosr with thin-tunneling dielectric in DEL

The dielectric permeability of this type of capacitors varies over a wide range, the energy being accumulated in the DEL and due to chemical reactions. Specific energy capacities were calculated for hybrid capacitors with thin-tunneling dielectric in the DEL and a dielectric permeability of 103 for water electrolyte cells and 102 for polymer electrolyte cells (Table 3, Fig. 7). LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 was used as CAM.

Table 3.

Specific energy capacities for hybrid capacitors with high dielectric permeability and CAM additions

Specimen No. Capacitor weight (g) Specific energy capacity without CAM Esp (W·h/kg) Hybrid capacitor specific energy capacity at Ehybr (W·h/kg)
CAM weight 5 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 15 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 35 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 50 % of hybrid capacitor weight
Water electrolyte cellswat ~ 103, dav.wat ~ 13.8 nm)
1 18 53 60 110 210 285
2 25 52 60 110 210 285
3 100 65 68 118 218 293
Polymer electrolyte cellspolym ~ 102, dav.polym ~ 1.0 nm)
1 20 212 179 255 407 521
2 46 299 237 313 465 579
3 80 182 159 235 287 501

If conventional cathode materials are used, no appreciable growth in specific energy capacity can be achieved even with new anodes (see Fig. 2) the weight of which is 5–10% greater due to the respective reduction of anode weight.

However, the result can be improved by using new electrolytic cell designs e.g. air/lithium CCS. The development of those electrolytic cells requires new technologies. One option is to use thin-film technologies.

Specific energy capacities of hybrid capacitors were calculated for ZnO and LiO2 metal/air systems (Tables 4 and 5) and their charts were plotted (Figs 8 and 9). The energy capacity of ZnO/air CCS proved to be 902 W·h/kg and that of LiO2/air CCS, 10811 W·h/kg for polymer electrolyte (Table 5) and 9130 W·h/kg for water electrolyte at 2.5 V.

The calculations suggest that even if a thin-tunneling dielectric with a relatively low dielectric permeability is used, conventional chemically active materials allow achieving CCS with a specific energy capacity of 400–500 W·h/kg, and the specific energy capacity will grow dramatically if the lithium/air system is used.

Theoretical analysis of prospective electrolytic cells suggests the necessity of developing a thin-film technology providing for the fabrication of new generation electrode materials designed in the form of a carbon matrix with a well-developed surface containing a thin-tunneling dielectric with CAM on its surface. The main task of this technology is to provide for the deposition of nanostructured functional layers on the carbon matrix with a high specific surface area (450–500 m2/g or higher). Theoretical analysis suggests that high specific energy capacities can be achieved by providing a hybrid capacitor with a thin tunneling dielectric in the DEL and CCS in which lithium or its alloys are used as CAM. Solution of this task requires a technological system providing for the fabrication of high specific surface area matrices containing a thin-tunneling dielectric to accommodate CAM. Thin-film technologies are a promising development trend and therefore theoretical and physicochemical fundamentals of these technologies are being developed.

Figure 7.

Specific energy capacity of (a) water and (b) polymer electrolyte high dielectric permeability hybrid capacitors as a function of CAM content

Table 4.

Specific energy capacities of hybrid capacitors with ZnO metal/air system

Specimen No. Capacitor weight (g) Specific energy capacity without CAM Esp (W·h/kg) Hybrid capacitor specific energy capacity at Ehybr (W·h/kg)
CAM weight 5 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 15 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 35 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 50 % of hybrid capacitor weight
Water electrolyte cellswat ~ 103, dav.wat ~ 13.8 nm)
1 18 53 80 170 351 486
2 25 52 80 170 351 486
3 100 65 88 179 359 494
Polymer electrolyte cellspolym ~ 102, dav.polym ~ 1.0 nm)
1 20 212 186 276 457 592
2 46 299 244 334 515 650
3 80 182 166 256 437 572
Figure 8.

Specific energy capacity of (a) water and (b) polymer electrolyte hybrid capacitors with ZnO metal/air system as a function of CAM content

Table 5.

Specific energy capacities of hybrid capacitors with LiO2 metal/air system

Specimen No. Capacitor weight (g) Specific energy capacity without CAM Esp (W·h/kg) Hybrid capacitor specific energy capacity at Ehybr (W·h/kg)
CAM weight 5 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 15 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 35 % of hybrid capacitor weight CAM weight 50 % of hybrid capacitor weight
Water electrolyte cellswat ~ 103, dav.wat ~ 13.8 nm)
1 18 53 492 1404 3230 4600
2 25 52 492 1404 3230 4600
3 100 65 500 1413 3239 4608
Polymer electrolyte cellspolym ~ 102, dav.polym ~ 1.0 nm)
1 20 212 682 1763 3925 5547
2 46 299 740 1821 3983 5605
3 80 182 662 1743 3905 5527
Figure 9.

Specific energy capacity of (a) water and (b) polymer electrolyte hybrid capacitors with LiO2 metal/air system as a function of CAM content

3. Technological system development

3.1. Development and testing of elastic carbon matrix for electrode materials of capacitor structures

This work deals with a thin-film technology of CCS, high-performance supercapacitor systems and hybrid high-performance supercapacitor systems on the basis of a unified electrode material, which is justified by the physical and mathematical model being developed.

Study of the thin-film technology for active layer deposition on highly developed surface carbon matrices allows reducing the internal resistance of the electrolytic cells by orders of magnitude. Since the heat emission due to current passage in the system is described by the formula

Q = I2R,

the temperature decreases dramatically and hence the operation safety of the electrolytic cells increases.

Thus, a promising electrode material for hybrid capacitor structures is a nanostructured electrode material in the form of a carbon based matrix filled with nanostructured CAM.

Since an elastic matrix has a high specific surface area, energy accumulation in the electrode material occurs by two mechanisms: due to chemical reactions and in the DEL.

Carbon matrix metallization includes two stages:

First stage: magnetron vacuum titanium layer deposition on a UMRM-1 roll stand type system [30, 33].

Titanium was chosen due to its low weight and the possibility of eventually synthesizing sodium and potassium polytitanate. Appropriate processing of this material allows synthesizing high dielectric permeability coatings (above 106).

Second stage: coating of deeper layers and formation of target nanostructure by electropulse technologies.

The UMRM-1 technological system (Fig. 10) is designed for the metallization of carbon materials e.g. Busofit T-40 synthesized in the form of fabric for electrolytic cells.

Figure 10.

UMRM-1 vacuum plant

The equipment was designed for operation in moderate and cold climate, location category 4 as per GOST 15150-691 for locations with a (22 ± 3)°C air temperature and a (60 ± 15)% relative humidity.

The equipment is powered from three-phase four-wire mains with a neutral wire, 380/220 V, 50 Hz, power supply quality standard as per GOST 13109-872.

The equipment operation principle is titanium magnetron vacuum sputtering and titanium vapor condensation on a Busofit T-40 type carbon material a tape of which is run on the winding tolls over three evaporation zones [30].

Figure 11 a shows a photograph of source Busofit T-40 type carbon material surface without coating, and Fig. 12 shows photographs and electron micrographs of Busofit T-40 type material with a metal layer coating on the surface. The metal layer also acts as a current collector [30].

Figure 12 also shows a discrete thread of Busofit type fabric with a titanium layer applied.

The metal layer on Busofit type fabric reduces the internal resistance and increases the capacity of the electrolytic cell. A more complex technical task of applying a metal layer on each thread is solved by integration of a vacuum metallization technology with an electropulse technology of nanoparticle formation in liquid media. The surface to be coated is covered with a film having a pillar structure with a highly developed surface.

To date, the minimum experimental Busofit type fabric thickness is 250–300 mm which is 45–50 thread layers stacked one upon another. It is therefore impossible to apply metallization layers on each thread (over the whole fabric depth) in vacuum. Then a liquid phase nanoparticle deposition technology is used. Figure 13 shows the basic equipment module for liquid phase nanoparticle deposition and Fig. 14 shows a silver nanoparticle in distilled water.

This task was solved by developing a liquid phase coating deposition technology for which the target fabric is completely submerged in a metal nanoparticle-containing liquid for particle penetration to each individual thread.

Figure 15 shows electron micrographs of silver nanoparticle-metalized Busofit type fabric fibers.

One can see silver aggregation on the surface in the form of large nanoparticles and crystals which develop the fiber surface. Figure 16 shows a Busofit type fabric thread covered with an aluminum layer formed from nanoparticles.

Zinc and magnesium layers were also deposited on the carbon matrix during tests (Fig. 17).

The electrode materials obtained were used for synthesizing high-performance supercapacitors and DEL the appearance of which is shown in Fig. 16. Capacity proves to depend, primarily, on the electrode material surface area (Fig. 18, Curve 1) [29, 30]. Metal layer deposition on Busofit type fabric reduces the internal resistance and increases the specific energy capacity of electrolytic cells.

It is safe to assume that a decrease in the electrical resistance of the capacitor structure increases its specific energy capacity, and that thin-film technologies, unlike conventional thick-film ones, allow controlling this parameter over a wide range. The assembled capacitor structures were bed-tested for residual water removal aiming at achieving a higher operation voltage. The operation voltage could be increased to 4.5–5 V, corresponding to a maximum specific energy capacity of 25–30 Q·h/kg. Theoretically, the structure in question can be operated at voltages of above 5 V for dry-room assembly, i.e., in the complete absence of moisture. Then the specific energy capacity of cells can exceed the capacity of lead batteries.

Cyclic tests of bed specimens (Fig. 19) with 50 or more cycles showed stable operation at 0 to 4000 mV. No electrolyte decomposition traces were observed in this voltage range. Similar results were obtained for 0 to 6000 mV (see Fig. 19) indicating the absence of electrochemical modification in the electrolyte or oxidation/reduction reactions at electrodes [31–33].

Figure 11.

Photographs of (a) uncoated and (b) coated Busofit type fabric

Figure 12.

Photograph of Busofit type fabric with titanium layer applied: (а) high-magnification photograph; (b) electron micrograph. Thread thickness 6.131 mm, metal layer thickness 2.052 mm

Figure 13.

Electrode unit of electropulse plant for nanoparticle formation in liquid media

Figure 14.

Silver nanoparticle in distilled water

Figure 15.

Complex metallization of Busofit type fabric: (a) vacuum titanium application and (b) silver and nickel application

Figure 16.

Carbon matrix thread with nanostructured aluminum layer

Figure 17.

Carbon matrix thread with nanostructured zinc layer

Figure 18.

(a) Specific electrical capacity and (b) electrical resistance of ESR capacitor structure as a function of electrode material contact area in cells: (1) without metallization and (2) with metallization

Figure 19.

Cyclie C–V chart (bias rate 10 mV/s) for symmetrical energy storage with titanium-modified electrodes

4. Conclusion

Prospective electrolytic energy storage cell designs were studied. We show that a significant increase in the specific energy capacity can be achieved in capacitors with thin-tunneling dielectric in the double electric layer and in hybrid capacitors with the DEL containing a thin-tunneling dielectric layer.

A thin-film technological system was developed for the synthesis of nanostructured materials on carbon matrices with different specific surface areas allowing the manufacture of electrolytic cells and ensuring their specific energy capacity growth.

Acknowledgements

This work was carried out within State Assignment of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Topic No. FSFF-2023-0008.

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