NANO-TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERCAPACITORS WITH N-METHYL PYRROLE

Conducting polymers are promising materials for the usage areas like: electrochromics, batteries, biosensors, gas separation membranes, enzyme immobilization matrices and metal protection against corrosion, etc as well as supercapacitor construction. 11,12,13,14 Their importance as an active layer of a supercapacitor is their high energy capacity, fast charging/discharging, ease of tailoring, robustness, high surface area, environmentally friendly properties. In this project, several conducting polymers will be chemically synthesized. The resulting, intrinsically conductive polymers and some low band gap polymers will be used as electrode materials in nano-technological supercapacitors. The project has three stages that combine nano-technology, polymer chemistry and materials science: (1) Template synthesis of conducting polymers (2) characterization of low band gap and highly surfaced conducting polymers, (3) construction of supercapacitors. The main goal of this project is production of exceptionally high capacity supercapacitors. For the first step, polymer films of N-methyl-pyrrole will be synthesized by using template synthesis method. The resulting, the high surface area and robustness of conducting polymers will be enhanced by depositing them on to the carbon nano-tubes. Nanotubes are attractive materials as electrodes for storage devices because of their extraordinary properties like high chemical stability, low molecular density, low specific resistance and very high surface area. Electrochemical methods will be applied in order to see the storage abilities of polymer deposited carbon nanotubes. The main goal of this project is production of exceptionally high capacity supercapacitors.