Synthesis of functionalized 3D porous graphene using both ionic liquid and SiO2 spheres as “spacers” for high-performance supercapacitors application
Nanoscale • 2014
Publication Information
Authors
Tingting Li, Na Li, Jiawei Liu, Kai Cai, Mohamed Frahat Foda, Xiaomin Lei and Heyou Han
Keywords
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Journal
Nanoscale
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry 2015
Volume
7
Issue
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Pages
659-669
publication.type
International
Paper Link
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Supplementary Materials
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Abstract
In this paper, a high-capacity supercapacitor material based on functionalized three-dimensional (3D) porous graphene was fabricated by low temperature hydrothermal treatment of graphene oxide (GO) using both ionic liquid (IL) and SiO2 spheres as “spacers”. In the synthesis, the introduction of dual “spacers” effectively enlarged the interspace between graphene sheets and suppressed their re-stacking. Besides, the IL also acted as structure-directing agent played a crucial role in inducing the formation of unique 3D architecture. Consequently, fast electron/ion transport channels were successfully constructed and numerous oxygen-containing groups on graphene sheets were effectively reserved, which had unique advantages in decreasing ion diffusion resistance and providing additional pseudocapacitance. As expected, the obtained material exhibited superior specific capacitance and rate capability compared to singly “spacer” designed electrodes, and simultaneously maintained excellent cycling stability. Specifically, there were nearly no loss of its initial capacitance after 3000 cycles. In addition, we further assembled a symmetric two-electrode device using the material which showed outstanding flexibility and low equivalent series resistance (ESR). More importantly, it was capable of yielding a maximum power density of about 13.3 kW kg–1 with an energy density of about 7.0 W h kg–1 at a voltage of 1.0 V in 1 M H2SO4 electrolyte. All these impressive results demonstrate that the material obtained by this approach is greatly promising for high-performance supercapacitors application.
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