• 文献标题:   Untying the Bundles of Solution-Synthesized Graphene Nanoribbons for Highly Capacitive Micro-Supercapacitors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU ZY, HU YB, ZHENG WH, WANG C, BAAZIZ W, RICHARD F, ERSEN O, BONN M, WANG HI, NARITA A, CIESIELSKI A, MULLEN K, SAMORI P
  • 作者关键词:   bundle, graphene nanoribbon, microsupercapacitor, molecular amphiphilicity, shearmixing exfoliation
  • 出版物名称:   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   1616-301X EI 1616-3028
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  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1002/adfm.202109543 EA JAN 2022
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

The precise bottom-up synthesis of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with controlled width and edge structures may compensate for graphene's limitations, such as the absence of an electronic bandgap. At the same time, GNRs maintain graphene's unique lattice structure in one dimension and provide more open-edge structures compared to graphene, thus allowing faster ion diffusion, which makes GNRs highly promising for energy storage systems. However, the current solution-synthesized GNRs suffer from severe aggregation due to the strong pi-pi interactions, which limits their potential applications. Thus, it is indispensable to develop a facile and scalable approach to exfoliate the GNRs from the postsynthetic aggregates, yielding individual nanoribbons. Here, a high-shear-mixing approach is demonstrated to untie the GNR bundles into practically individual GNRs, by introducing suitable molecular interactions. The micro-supercapacitor (MSC) electrode based on solution-processed GNR film exhibits an excellent volumetric capacitance of 355 F cm(-3) and a high power density of 550 W cm(-3), reaching the state-of-the-art performance of graphene and related carbon materials, and thus demonstrating the great potential of GNRs as electrode materials for future energy storage.