• 文献标题:   Synthesis and characterization of nitrogen-doped graphene hollow spheres as electrode material for supercapacitors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   XIA KC, WANG GX, ZHANG HL, YU YF, LIU L, CHEN AB
  • 作者关键词:   nitrogendoped, graphene, hollow, supercapacitor, van der waals force
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
  • ISSN:   1388-0764 EI 1572-896X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Hebei Univ Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1007/s11051-017-3954-z
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Recently, the rapid development of graphene industry in the world, especially in China, provides more opportunities for the further extension of the application field of graphene-based materials. Graphene has also been considered as a promising candidate for use in supercapacitors. Here, nitrogen-doped graphene hollow spheres (NGHS) have been successfully synthesized by using industrialized and pre-processed graphene oxide (GO) as raw material, SiO2 spheres as hard templates, and urea as reducing-doping agents. The results demonstrate that the content and pretreatment of GO sheets have important effect on the uniform spherical morphologies of the obtained samples. Industrialized GO and low-cost urea are used to prepare graphene hollow spheres, which can be a promising route to achieve mass production of NGHS. The obtained NGHS have a cavity of about 270 nm, specific surface area of 402.9 m(2) g(-1), ultrathin porous shells of 2.8 nm, and nitrogen content of 6.9 at.%. As electrode material for supercapacitors, the NGHS exhibit a specific capacitance of 159 F g(-1) at a current density of 1 A g(-1) in 6 M KOH aqueous electrolyte. Moreover, the NGHS exhibit superior cycling stability with 99.24% capacitive retention after 5000 charge/discharge cycles at a current density of 5 A g(-1).