Abstract
Manganese dioxide nanofibers with length ranged from 0.1 to 1 μm and a diameter of about 2–4 nm were prepared by a chemical precipitation method. Composite electrodes for electrochemical supercapacitors were fabricated by impregnation of slurries of the manganese dioxide nanofibers and multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into porous nickel foam current collectors. In the composite electrodes, MWCNT formed a secondary conductivity network within the nickel foam cells. Obtained composite electrodes, containing 0–20 wt.% MWCNT with total mass loading of 40 mg cm −2, showed a capacitive behavior in the 0.1–0.5 M Na 2SO 4 solutions. The highest specific capacitance (SC) of 155 F g −1 was obtained at a scan rate of 2 mV s −1 in the 0.5 M Na 2SO 4 solutions. The SC increased with increasing MWCNT content in the composite materials and increasing Na 2SO 4 concentration in the solutions and decreased with increasing scan rate.
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