17-3 The Effects of Potassium Ferrocyanide/Potassium Ferricyanide and their Derivatives on the Performance of Solid-State Supercapacitor Xiangyang Zhou, Xiaoyao Qiao, Chen Zhang, and Yuchen Wang Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Miami 1251 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, USA, FL33124
[email protected] / 1-305-284-3287 Azzam N. Mansour, Gordon H. Waller, and Curtis A. Martin NSWCCD, 9500 MacArthur Boulevard, West Bethesda, Maryland, USA MD20817
[email protected] / 301-227-4451 Abstract: In previous studies, we have demonstrated that function of mediators, including increasing capacitance of the addition of metal cyanide mediators or redox species supercapacitor and promoting the ionic conductivity of the into polymer electrolytes can effectively increase the electrolyte, have been observed and analyzed. specific energy and power of a mediator containing As a mediator, Prussian blue derivatives or analogues supercapacitor relative to a supercapacitor without a (PBAs) have fast reversible redox kinetics and high specific mediator. The benefits of combining mediators into the capacitance. However, compared to other redox mediators, composite electrode, which contains carbon powder and PBAs have unique advantages in practical applications: polymer electrolyte, are the introduction of pseudo- capacitance, promotion of ionic and electronic 1. PBAs are insoluble in most solvents. For other redox conductivities, and serving as additional ion sources for mediators, such as K3Fe(CN)6/K4Fe(CN)6 and NaI/I2, electric double layer capacitance. In order to further which are soluble in an aqueous electrolyte, an expensive enhance the performance of the mediator supercapacitor selective membrane must be employed to prevent the and to elucidate the charge/discharge mechanisms, a mediator-crossover issue for non- solid-state SC.