Large-scale vertical graphene on nickel foil as a binder-free electrode for high performance battery-like supercapacitor with an aqueous redox electrolyte
Due to the special three-dimensional structures and excellent physicochemical properties, vertical graphene (VG) has been extensively investigated as potential material for supercapacitors. However, achieving VG-based supercapacitors with high-energy density and high-power density is a still tremend...
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| Language: | en |
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Elsevier B.V.
2023
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/44072/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/44072/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233183 |
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| Summary: | Due to the special three-dimensional structures and excellent physicochemical properties, vertical graphene (VG) has been extensively investigated as potential material for supercapacitors. However, achieving VG-based supercapacitors with high-energy density and high-power density is a still tremendous challenge. Here we attempt to synthesize large-scale VG films on flexible substrates and design a novel battery-like supercapacitor (BSCs) with the VG on Ni foil (VG@Ni) as a binder-free electrode operating in the KOH electrolyte with the redox additives of K₃Fe(CN)₆ and/or K₄Fe(CN)₆. The VG@Ni electrodes demonstrate an ultrahigh areal capacitance of 1453 mF cm⁻² at 5 mA cm⁻² in 1 M KOH electrolyte with adding 0.07 M K₃Fe(CN)₆ and 0.07 M K4Fe(CN)6, coulombic efficiency greater than 90%, and long-life cycling stability (capacitance retention is 99.3% after 20000 charge-discharge cycles). The BSCs, which are assembled with two identical VG@Ni electrodes, deliver the areal capacitance of 231 mF cm⁻² with energy density of 32 μWh cm⁻² and power density of 2498 μW cm⁻² at 1 mA cm⁻². These outstanding performances can be ascribed to the special feature and excellent properties of VG materials, high electronic conductivity of binder-free VG@Ni electrode, faradaic properties of redox electrolyte, and synergistic effects between the VG film and redox electrolyte. |
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