Graduation Semester and Year
Fall 2024
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
First Advisor
Sunand Santhanagopalan
Abstract
Thermally Self-Charging Supercapacitors (TSCS) are a promising new technology that can harvest waste heat to produce electrical energy. The Soret effect is exploited wherein ion separation due a temperature gradient leads to a potential difference. Here, we use electrophoretic deposition (EPD), a room-temperature, scalable, universal technique, to obtain CNT decorated electrodes for fabrication of such TSCS devices with ionic liquid electrolyte. We further show that precise control over deposition parameters can be used for optimization of TSCS performance metrics. TSCS devices were tested by several characterization standards, indicating the superior performance of nanodecorated electrodes obtained by EPD.
Keywords
EPD, Soret Effect, Supercapacitor, Ions
Disciplines
Electrical and Electronics | Electro-Mechanical Systems
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Thakur, Ashish, "ELECTOPHORECTIC DEPOSITION FOR NOVEL NANODECORATED ELECTRODES TOWARDS THERMALLY CHARGING SUPERCAPACITOR (TCSC)" (2024). Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses. 1029.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/mechaerospace_theses/1029