Preparation and Electrochemical Analysis of Ni-Based Metal Organic Frameworks Containing Binary Ligands for Capacitor Electrodes.

As one of the energy storage systems, supercapacitors have quite long charge-discharge cycle life. Among many kinds of electrode materials, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have unique properties such as high specific surface areas and large pore volume as supercapacitor electrode materials. Nickel-MOFs consist of binary ligand such as 1,3,5-Trimesic acid (H₃BTC) and terephthalic acid (TPA) were used as working electrode materials in three electrode cell for capacitor system. When synthesizing MOFs, it is possible to prepare uniform crystals using hydrothermal synthesis. The morphology of composites was analyzed by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). Electrochemical properties were measured by cyclic voltammetry (CV), galvanostatic charge-discharge (GCD) in 6M KOH electrolyte.