本研究利用快速常壓電漿燒結製程,製作二氧化錫/奈米碳管複合材料並且運用到超級電容的電極上。奈米多孔隙二氧化錫/奈米碳管將料是由混合二氧化錫奈米粉末、奈米碳管、乙基纖維素(ethyl celluloses)和無水萜品醇(terpineol)等碳基有機物製成二氧化錫/奈米碳管奈米粒子膠體溶液,漿料經由網印後,再利用氮氣常壓噴射電漿進行燒結。隨著常壓電漿燒結時間增加,二氧化錫/奈米碳管複材的沾濕性也隨之增加(水接觸角變小),因此電解液可以有效地浸入奈米孔洞結構,提升超電容的儲能效率。常壓電漿燒結有兩種模式,固定載台及載台移動,其中固定載台單點燒結120秒其比電容可達188.42 F/g、載台移動(1.5 mm/s) 的燒結條件下,比電容可達89.6 F/g。我們成功將常壓電漿燒結應用在超級電容的電極上,常壓電漿不須真空腔體及泵浦且製程時間相對快速,在工業上的應用具有高度發展潛力的。
We demonsrate a supercapacitor made of nanoporous SnO2/CNT (carbon nanotube) composites that are sintered by nitrogen atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs). The sreen-printing technique is first used to print a paste that contains SnO2 and CNT nanoparticles, ethyl celluloses, terpinoel. A nitrogen APPJ is then used to sinter the printed paste. With the increasing of APPJ sintering time, the wettability of SnO2/CNT composites also increases (lower water contact angle). Two different APPJ operation configurations are used in this study: one is with the stage fixed; the other is with a stage being scanned (moving stage, in order to process a sample with larger area). With the stage fixed, the best achieved specific capacitance is 188.42 F/g with 120 s processing duration. On the other hand, with the scanning stage, the best achieved specifnic capacitance is 89.6 F/g with 1.5 mm/s scanning speed. The scanning speed influences the processing time at a designated spot on the sample, thereby resulting in various properties of sintered SnO2/CNT composites. APPJ can be operated at a regular atmospheric pressure without using vacuum chambers and pumps that are expensive and require routine maintenance. Therefore, this technology has become a cost-effective tool readily for industrical application.