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Carbon And Boron Nitride Nanotube Fabricated Supercapacitors, Derek Christian Demuth
Carbon And Boron Nitride Nanotube Fabricated Supercapacitors, Derek Christian Demuth
Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations
The fabrication of supercapacitor devices consisting of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has great theoretical capabilities of high specific capacitance, energy density, and power density. Various methods of dispersion and deposition are utilized to optimize such supercapacitors with BNNTs and CNTs, and also to produce devices with only CNTs to use as a benchmark. In addition to capacitance measurements, BNNTs that were exposed to nitric acid were compared to fabricated devices without acid exposure.
Dispersion has been accomplished through the trial of many solvents and surfactants for both CNTs and BNNTs. Deposition techniques that are utilized rely …