Colloidal Processing of Mn3O4-Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposite Electrodes for Supercapacitors
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Abstract
This investigation addresses the challenges in the development of efficient nanostructured Mn3O4 cathodes for supercapacitors. A high areal capacitance and the ability to avoid a time-consuming activation procedure for electrodes with high active mass loading of 40 mg cm−2 are reported. This facilitates practical applications of Mn3O4 based electrodes. The highest capacitance of 6.11 F cm−2 (153 F g−1) is obtained from cyclic voltammetry at a scan rate of 2 mV s−1 and 6.07 F cm−2 (151.9 F g−1) from the chronopotentiometry at a current density of 3 mA cm−2 in a potential window of 0.9 V in a neutral Na2SO4 electrolyte. The new approach is based on the application of rhamnolipids (RL) as a capping agent for the synthesis of Mn3O4 particles and a co-dispersant for Mn3O4 and carbon nanotubes, which are used as conductive additives. The size and shape of the Mn3O4 particles are influenced by RL. The enhanced performance of the electrodes is linked to the chemical structure and properties of RL molecules, which exert influence on Mn3O4 particle size and shape during synthesis, reduce agglomeration, facilitate RL adsorption on Mn3O4 and carbon nanotubes, and influence their co-dispersion and mixing at the nanometric scale.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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