Abstract
3D-printing is an emerging technology that can be used for the fast prototyping and decentralised production of objects with complex geometries. Concretely, carbon-based 3D-printed electrodes have emerged as promising components for electrochemical capacitors. However, such electrodes usually require some post-treatments to be electrically active. Herein, 3D-printed nanocomposite electrodes made from a polylactic acid/nanocarbon filament have been characterised through different carbonisation temperatures in order to improve the conductivity of the electrodes via insulating polymer removal. Importantly, the carbonisation temperature has demonstrated to be a key parameter to tailor the capacitive behaviour of the resulting electrodes. Accordingly, this work opens new insights in advanced 3D-printed carbon-based electrodes employing thermal activation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 19673-19680 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Nanoscale |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 38 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2020 Oct 14 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:M.P. acknowledge the financial support of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic by the GACR EXPRO 19-26896X project. E.R. and S.N. acknowledge CzechNanoLab Research Infrastructure supported by LM2018110 MEYS CR 2020–2022. E.R. acknowledges the financial support of MeMoV VUT CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_027/0008371 under the OP VVV program. The authors thank Dr J. Petruš for the TGA measurements.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Materials Science(all)