Characterization of anodized titanium-based novel paradigm supercapacitors: impact of salt identity and frequency on dielectric values, power, and energy densities
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Authors
Lombardo, Steven M.
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capacitor
super dielectric material
titanium dioxide
nanotubes
ammonium chloride
sodium nitrate
potassium hydroxide
super dielectric material
titanium dioxide
nanotubes
ammonium chloride
sodium nitrate
potassium hydroxide
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Phillips, Jonathan
Date of Issue
2017-03
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Mar-17
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Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
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This research was designed to characterize the frequency response of Novel Paradigm (NP) Supercapacitors employing Nanotube Super Dielectric Materials as dielectrics. The result of tests with nine capacitors, each with a unique aqueous salt solution, provided detailed information required to design short pulse systems. This detailed information is required for engineering analysis of NP Supercapacitors in systems of interest to the U.S. Navy (USN) such as the railgun, electromagnetic aircraft launch system, and free electron laser. Key findings show salt identity and concentration impact performance, very high energy densities (>150 J/cm3) are found for slow discharges (~100 s), and power density increases as discharge rate increases. Finally, the best power density measured at a discharge rate relevant to USN application (~0.01 s) was 90 W/cm3 using an aqueous salt identity of 30 wt% Ammonium Chloride. This is a significant improvement (>3x) relative to available commercial supercapacitors.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.