Letter

Building Energy Storage Device on a Single Nanowire

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and §Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
Nano Lett., 2011, 11 (8), pp 3329–3333
DOI: 10.1021/nl2017042
Publication Date (Web): July 14, 2011
Copyright © 2011 American Chemical Society

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Hybrid electrochemical energy storage devices combine the advantages of battery and supercapacitors, resulting in systems of high energy and power density. Using LiPF6 electrolyte, the Ni–Sn/PANI electrochemical system, free of Li-based electrodes, works on a hybrid mechanism based on Li intercalation at the anode and PF6 doping at the cathode. Here, we also demonstrate a composite nanostructure electrochemical device with the anode (Ni–Sn) and cathode (polyaniline, PANI) nanowires packaged within conformal polymer core–shell separator. Parallel array of these nanowire devices shows reversible areal capacity of ∼3 μAh/cm2 at a current rate of 0.03 mA/cm2. The work shows the ultimate miniaturization possible for energy storage devices where all essential components can be engineered on a single nanowire.

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Received 20 May 2011
Published online 14 July 2011
Published in print 10 August 2011