Usha Rani Malothu

Supercapacitors has gained a significant attention as energy storage systems alongside other high-energy-density options like lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries primarily due to their high-power density, reasonable energy density, long cycle life, lower cost, and safety. 1 Supercapacitors can store electrical charge through either the creation of an electrical double layer (known as Electrical double layer capacitors (EDLC) and/or by surface redox reactions (known as pseudo capacitors).

In this study, we presented a facile synthesis of ternary composite by depositing polyaniline (PANI) onto electrospun MXene-embedded carbon nanofibers (CNF) using in situ polymerization. Polymerization duration was varied between 2 and 8 hours to tune fiber diameter and surface area. The physicochemical properties of binary and ternary composites were characterized, such as surface morphology and chemical functional groups and surface area and pore volume.