Preparation of Supercapacitor Electrodes through Selection of Graphene Surface Functionalities

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• 作者：Linfei Lai ; Huanping Yang ; Liang Wang ; Boon Kin Teh ; Jianqiang Zhong ; Harry Chou ; Luwei Chen ; Wei Chen ; Zexiang Shen ; Rodney S. Ruoff ; Jianyi Lin
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：July 24, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：6
• 期：7
• 页码：5941-5951
• 全文大小：674K
• 年卷期：v.6,no.7(July 24, 2012)
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

In order to investigate the effect of graphene surface chemistry on the electrochemical performance of graphene/polyaniline composites as supercapacitor electrodes, graphene oxide (G-O), chemically reduced G-O (RG-O), nitrogen-doped RG-O (N-RG-O), and amine-modified RG-O (NH₂-RG-O) were selected as carriers and loaded with about 9 wt % of polyaniline (PANi). The surface chemistry of these materials was analyzed by FTIR, NEXAFS, and XPS, and the type of surface chemistry was found to be important for growth of PANi that influences the magnitude of increase of specific capacitance. The NH₂-RG-O/PANi composite exhibited the largest increase in capacitance with a value as high as 500 F g^鈥? and good cyclability with no loss of capacitance over 680 cycles, much better than that of RG-O/PANi, N-RG-O/PANi, and G-O/PANi when measured in a three-electrode system. A NH₂-RG-O/PANi//N-RG-O supercapacitor cell has a capacitance of 79 F g^鈥?, and the corresponding specific capacitance for NH₂-RG-O/PANi is 395 F g^鈥?. This research highlights the importance of introducing 鈭扤H₂ to RG-O to achieve highly stable cycling performance and high capacitance values.

Keywords:

supercapacitor electrodes; graphene; surface functionalities