La-Based Material for Energy Storage Applications |
| F.E. Atalay, H. Kaya, A. Bingol and D. Asma
Inonu University, Science and Art Faculty, Department of Physics, Malatya 44280, Turkey |
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| In this work, nanostructured La-based materials were produced by chemical precipitation method onto Cladosporium cladosporioides fungal hyphae in aqueous solution. Materials were annealed at various temperatures between 100°C-600°C. The morphological properties of the synthesized material were studied by transmission electron microscopy. The surface area for sample annealed at 360°C was determined to be 85.64 m2/g using Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method. The nitrogen adsorption and desorption isotherm displayed a typical type-IV isotherm. Electrochemical properties of produced material were studied using cyclic voltammetry, long term charge/discharge analysis and impedance spectroscopy in the 0.5 M Na2SO4 electrolyte. The obtained nanostructured porous electrode exhibits quasi-rectangular shaped cyclic voltammetry curves with a specific capacitance of 2190 F/g at a scan rate of 2 mV/s. |
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.131.453 PACS numbers: 81.07.-b, 82.47.Uv |