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Sucrose derived carbon coated silicon nanowires for supercapacitor application

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Sucrose derived carbon coated silicon nanowires (SDCC-SiNWs) were prepared by drop casting of sucrose derived carbon (SDC) slurries and used as active electrode material for supercapacitors. It was observed that the SDC particles were coated over SiNWs. The results obtained by cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge/discharge measurements of SDCC-SiNWs showed superior capacitive performance compared to just SDC based supercapacitors. SDCC-SiNWs has a significantly higher areal capacitance of 3.3 mF/cm2 as compared to that of bare SiNWs (96 µF/cm2) or SDC based electrode (817 µF/cm2).

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The Authors are grateful to SAIF department IIT Bombay. We are also thankful to Prof. V.S. Raja and Prof. S. Parida to provide us electrochemical characterization facility and Crompton Greaves for the financial support to Rahul Kumar and Ankur Soam. FIST facility (Dual beam FIB, Carl Zeiss Microscopy) in ME & MS department was also used for this work.

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    Rahul Kumar, Ankur Soam, Rajiv O. Dusane & Parag Bhargava

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Kumar, R., Soam, A., Dusane, R.O. et al. Sucrose derived carbon coated silicon nanowires for supercapacitor application. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 29, 1947–1954 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-017-8105-x

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