• 文献标题:   Dry-Processed, Binder-Free Holey Graphene Electrodes for Supercapacitors with Ultrahigh Areal Loadings
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WALSH ED, HAN XG, LACEY SD, KIM JW, CONNELL JW, HU LB, LIN Y
  • 作者关键词:   supercapacitor, graphene, holey graphene, dry processing areal capacitance
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244 EI 1944-8252
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Maryland
  • 被引频次:   33
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsami.6b09951
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

For commercial applications, the need for smaller footprint energy storage devices requires more energy to be stored per unit area. Carbon nanomaterials, especially graphene, have been studied as supercapacitor electrodes and can achieve high gravimetric capacities affording high gravimetric energy densities. However, most nanocarbon-based electrodes exhibit a significant decrease in their areal capacitances when scaled to the high mass loadings typically used in commercially available cells (similar to 10 mg/cm(2)). One of the reasons for this behavior is that the additional surface area in thick electrodes is not readily accessible by electrolyte ions due to the large tortuosity. Furthermore, the fabrication of such electrodes often involves complicated processes that limit the potential for mass production. Here, holey graphene electrodes for supercapacitors that are scalable in both production and areal capacitance are presented. The lateral surface porosity on the graphene sheets was created using a facile single-step air oxidation method, and the resultant holey graphene was compacted under ambient conditions into mechanically robust monolithic shapes that can be directly used as binder-free electrodes. In comparison, pristine graphene discs under similar binder-free compression molding conditions were extremely brittle and thus not deemed useful for electrode applications. The coin cell supercapacitors, based on these holey graphene electrodes exhibited small variations in gravimetric capacitance over a wide range of areal mass loadings (similar to 1-30 mg/cm(2)) at current densities as high as 30 mA/cm(2), resulting in the near-linear increase of the areal capacitance (F/cm(2)) with the mass loading. The prospects of the presented method for facile binder-free ultrathick graphene electrode fabrication are discussed.