• 文献标题:   Carbon foams from emulsion-templated reduced graphene oxide polymer composites: electrodes for supercapacitor devices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WOODWARD RT, MARKOULIDIS F, DE LUCA F, ANTHONY DB, MALKO D, MCDONALD TO, SHAFFER MSP, BISMARCK A
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
  • ISSN:   2050-7488 EI 2050-7496
  • 通讯作者地址:   Imperial Coll London
  • 被引频次:   21
  • DOI:   10.1039/c7ta09893f
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Amphiphilic reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is an efficient emulsifier for water-in-divinylbenzene (DVB) high internal phase emulsions. The polymerisation of the continuous DVB phase of the emulsion template and removal of water results in macroporous poly(divinylbenzene) (polyDVB). Subsequent pyrolysis of the poly(DVB) macroporous polymers yields 'all-carbon' foams containing micropores alongside emulsion templated-macropores, resulting in hierarchical porosity. The synthesis of carbon foams, or 'carboHIPEs', from poly(DVB) produced by polymerisation of rGO stabilised HIPEs provides both exceptionally high surface areas (up to 1820 m(2) g(-1)) and excellent electrical conductivities (up to 285 S m(-1)), competing with the highest figures reported for carboHIPEs. The use of a 2D carbon emulsifier results in the elimination of post-carbonisation treatments to remove standard inorganic particulate emulsifiers, such as silica particles. It is demonstrated that rGO containing carboHIPEs are good candidates for supercapacitor electrodes where carboHIPEs derived from more conventional polymerised silica-stabilised HIPEs perform poorly. Supercapacitor devices featured a room-temperature ionic liquid electrolyte and electrodes derived from either rGO- or silica-containing poly(DVB) HIPEs demonstrated a maximum specific capacitance of 26 F g(-1), an energy density of 5.2 W h kg(-1) and a power density of 280 W kg(-1).