• 文献标题:   Water crystallization to create ice spacers between graphene oxide sheets for highly electroactive graphene paper
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHEN KF, LIU F, SONG SY, XUE DF
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  • 出版物名称:   CRYSTENGCOMM
  • ISSN:   1466-8033
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   44
  • DOI:   10.1039/c4ce01030b
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We proved that ice crystallized from water molecules within as-synthesized graphene oxide (GO) can be used as a spacer among individual GO sheets to form an expanded GO aerogel with a three-dimensional porous network structure. This designed specific structure can be retained during further processes to form graphene paper. Due to the fact that the as-fabricated graphene paper contains carbon defects and space in its infrastructure, this creates more electroactive surfaces and interfaces to significantly increase the Faradaic reaction efficiency. With the introduction of redox-electrolyte K3Fe(CN)(6) into a KOH electrolyte, we can obtain a 95-fold increase in the specific capacitance compared with the value obtained in the traditional KOH electrolyte. The ice-crystallization formed graphene paper electrode showed high electro-activity because the specific porous structure can favor the fast transfer of electrolyte ions, such as Fe(CN)(6)(3-) ions. The presented results prove that ice-crystallization formed GO can serve as a chemically tunable platform for electrochemical energy storage applications.