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Colloidal Methods for the Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube-Manganese Dioxide and Carbon Nanotube-Polypyrrole Composites Using Bile Acids

Colloidal Methods for the Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube-Manganese Dioxide and Carbon Nanotube-Polypyrrole Composites Using Bile Acids

M S Ata, I Zhitomirsky

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2015 Sep 15;454:27-34.

PMID: 26001135

Abstract:

Nature inspired strategies have been developed for the colloidal processing of advanced composites for supercapacitor applications. New approach was based on the use of commercially available bile acid salts, such as sodium cholate (ChNa) and taurocholic acid sodium salt (TChNa). It was demonstrated that cholic acid (ChH) films can be obtained by electrophoretic deposition (EPD) from ChNa solutions. The analysis of deposition yield, quartz crystal microbalance and cyclic voltammetry data provided an insight into the anodic deposition mechanism. The outstanding suspension stability of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT), achieved using bile acids as anionic dispersants, allowed the fabrication of MWCNT films by EPD. The use of ChNa for EPD offered advantages of binding and film forming properties of this material. Composite MnO2-MWCNT films, prepared using ChNa as a dispersant and film forming agent for EPD, showed promising capacitive behavior. In another colloidal strategy, TChNa was used as a dispersant for MWCNT for the fabrication of polypyrrole (PPy) coated MWCNT. The use of PPy coated MWCNT allowed the fabrication of electrodes with high active mass loading, high capacitance and excellent capacitance retention at high charge-discharge rates.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP145426	Taurocholic acid sodium salt		145-42-6	Price

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