Synergistic Blends of Sodium Alginate and Pectin Biopolymer Hosts as Conducting Electrolytes for Electrochemical Applications

R Jansi; Boligarla Vinay; M S Revathy; Ponnusamy Sasikumar; Latha Marasamy; Aruna Janani; Rajesh Haldhar; Seong-Cheol Kim; Zainab M Almarhoon; M Khalid Hossain

doi:10.1021/acsomega.3c09106

Synergistic Blends of Sodium Alginate and Pectin Biopolymer Hosts as Conducting Electrolytes for Electrochemical Applications

ACS Omega. 2024 Mar 12;9(12):13906-13916. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.3c09106. eCollection 2024 Mar 26.

Authors

R Jansi^{1

2}, Boligarla Vinay³, M S Revathy¹, Ponnusamy Sasikumar⁴, Latha Marasamy⁵, Aruna Janani³, Rajesh Haldhar⁶, Seong-Cheol Kim⁶, Zainab M Almarhoon⁷, M Khalid Hossain^{8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, School of Advanced Sciences, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, Virudhunagar 626126, Tamil Nadu, India.
² Multifunctional Materials Laboratory, International Research Centre, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, Virudhunagar 626126, Tamil Nadu, India.
³ Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Bio, Chemical and Processing Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, Virudhunagar 626126 Tamil Nadu, India.
⁴ Department of Physics, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Thandalam, Chennai 602105, India.
⁵ Facultad de Química, Materiales-Energía, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro C.P.76010, Mexico.
⁶ School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
⁸ Institute of Electronics, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Dhaka 1349, Bangladesh.
⁹ Department of Advanced Energy Engineering Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan.

Abstract

The world needs sustainable energy resources with affordable, economic, and accountable sources. Consequently, energy innovation technologies are evolving toward electrochemical applications like batteries, supercapacitors, etc. The current study involves the solid blend biopolymer electrolyte (SBBE) with different compositions of sodium alginate blended with pectin via the casting technique. The characterization of the sample was tested by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, AC impedance, linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), and cyclic voltammetry (CV) analyses. Evidently, the sample NP4 (NaAlg/pectin = 60:40 wt %) has a higher conductivity of 1.26 × 10^-7 and 3.25 × 10^-6 S cm^-1 at 303 and 353 K, respectively. The performances of the samples were analyzed with variations in temperature, frequency, and time responses to signify the blended nature of the electrolyte. Hence, the studied biopolymers can be constructed for electrochemical device applications.