Synthesis and Characterisation of vanadium disulphide and its composites for supercapacitor applications

dc.contributor.advisorManyala, Ncholu I.
dc.contributor.emailrutavigift@yahoo.comen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateRutavi, Gift
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T10:37:41Z
dc.date.available2021-02-10T10:37:41Z
dc.date.created2021-04-30
dc.date.issued2020-11-30
dc.descriptionDissertation (MSc (Physics))--University of Pretoria, 2020.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractVanadium disulphide/graphene foam composite samples with varying physical and electrochemical properties were synthesised through varying the mass of graphene in the composite. The optimized VS2/GF-100 mg exhibited superior specific capacity of 38 mAh g-1 which was larger than 31 mA h g-1 of the pristine (VS2) at a specific current of 0.5 A g-1. A hybrid capacitor was then assembled by using VS2/GF-100 mg as the positive electrode and activated sugar carbon (ACS) as the negative electrode material in 2 M KOH. The hybrid device of VS2/GF-100 mg/ ACS provided a specific energy of 24 Wh kg-1 and a specific power of 494 W kg-1 at a specific current of 0.5 A g-1. The device showed a high cycling stability with 86.5 % capacity retention for 15 000 charge discharge cycles at 5 A g-1.en_ZA
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dc.description.degreeMSc (Physics)en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPhysicsen_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipSouth African Research Chairs Initiative (SARCHi) and NRF (Grant number 61056)en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation*en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherA2021en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/78393
dc.identifier.uriDOI: https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.21717062.v1
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectUCTDen_ZA
dc.subjectPhysicsen_ZA
dc.titleSynthesis and Characterisation of vanadium disulphide and its composites for supercapacitor applicationsen_ZA
dc.typeDissertationen_ZA

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