• 文献标题:   An interleaved porous laminate composed of reduced graphene oxide sheets and carbon black spacers by in situ electrophoretic deposition
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG M, OH J, GHOSH T, HONG S, NAM G, HWANG T, NAM JD
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  • 出版物名称:   RSC ADVANCES
  • ISSN:   2046-2069
  • 通讯作者地址:   Sungkyunkwan Univ
  • 被引频次:   32
  • DOI:   10.1039/c3ra45979a
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Although the graphene-based materials have a great potential to be used for various energy storage devices, the expected performance of graphene has not been achieved yet seemingly due to the lack of interconnected porosity and actively-exposed surface area that should be developed in the re-stacked graphene electrodes. Herein we used an electrophoretic deposition (EPD) method to fabricate a binder-free porous supercapacitor electrode composed of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) sheets and conductive carbon black (CB) particles. Applying EPD for an electrostatically-stabilized aqueous mixture of RGO and CB nanoparticles, the electrophoretic squeezing force in EPD induced the RGO sheets to align in the in-plane direction along with the CB particles placed in the interlayers of RGO. The developed ladder-like interleaved composite structure allowed a desirable porosity network and conductive path for a facile movement of ions and electrons. Controlling the ratios of concentrations (C-s,C- RGO/C-s,C- CB) and/or zeta potentials (xi(RGO)/xi(CB)) of the RGO and CB nanoparticles in aqueous mixtures, different nanostructures of the interleaved RGO/CB laminates could be fabricated. Thoroughly tested as a supercapacitor electrode in an organic electrolyte (TEA BF4), the developed RGO/CB electrodes provided excellent performance of the specific capacitance of 218 F g(-1) at a scan rate of 1 mV s(-1) (133.3 F g(-1) at a current density of 2 A g(-1)), energy density of 43.6 W h kg(-1) and power density of 71.3 kW kg(-1). It is believed that an ideal performance of intrinsic graphene properties could be exerted by the unique nanostructure of binder-free interleaved graphene laminates as developed by the scalable in situ EPD process for large-volume production.