Ionic liquid (1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tricyanomethanide) incorporated corn starch polymer electrolyte for solar cell and supercapacitor application
Subhrajit Konwar, Sushant Kumar, Ahmad Azmin Mohamad, Amrita Jain, Monika Michalska, Vinay Deep Punetha, Muhd Zu Azhan Yahya, K. Strzałkowski, Diksha Singh, Markus Diantoro, Faisal Islam Chowdhury, Pramod K. Singh
Abstract
Taking into account energy demand a new highly conducting ionic liquid (IL) c (EmImTCM) mixed corn starch (CS) biopolymer electrolyte is synthesized for dual electrochemical application electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) and the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) application. Electrical, structural, thermal, and optical studies are carried out in detail and presented in this communication. Maximum conducting IL-incorporated biopolymer electrolyte film has been sandwiched between electrodes to develop EDLC and DSSC. The sandwich-structured EDLC delivers a high specific capacitance of 250 F/gram while DSSC shows 1.44 % efficiency at one sun condition.