• 文献标题:   Graphene Aerosol Gel Ink for Printing Micro-Supercapacitors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GAUR APS, XIANG WJ, NEPAL A, WRIGHT JP, CHEN PP, NAGARAJA T, SIGDEL S, LACROIX B, SORENSEN CM, DAS SR
  • 作者关键词:   graphene aerosol gel ink, printed electronic, interdigitated electrode, microsupercapacitor, graphene additive manufacturing
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   2574-0962
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  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsaem.1c00919 EA JUN 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Synthesizing crumpled and porous graphene with sub-100-nm particle size and dispersing them uniformly in a solvent to form a stable colloidal suspension are key factors for obtaining a promising route toward graphene-based printed electronics. Here, we report the formulation of a stable graphene aerosol gel ink that could be used in number of technologies, such as supercapacitors for printed electronics. We use a gel-type graphene nanostructure, called graphene aerosol gel, synthesized via an energy efficient, catalyst-free, and nonhazardous chemical precursor detonation method, such as hydrocarbons (e.g., acetylene) in the presence of controlled oxygen. As a proof of concept, in this work, we have used the formulated graphene aerosol gel ink to print microsupercapacitors in interdigitated electrodes (IDEs) geometry on 25-mu m thick polyimide substrates using a microplotter. The graphene aerosol gel printed IDE microsupercapacitors with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (EMIM-BF4) ionic liquid (IL) electrolyte demonstrate promising supercapacitor stability when electrochemically cycled between 0 and 1 V potential window. These printed microsupercapacitors show an aerial capacitance of 55 mu F/cm(2) and volumetric capacitance of 3.25 F/cm(3) at a current density of 6.0 microamp/cm(2) and 20 milliamp/cm(3), respectively. The printed devices do not show a significant distortion in the cyclic voltammetry scan even at a high scan rate of 2000 mV s(-1) and demonstrate similar to 80% of capacitance retention after 10 000 cycles of operation, making our graphene aerosol gel ink a promising ink technology for printed energy storage devices and systems.