• 文献标题:   Unlocking the energy storage potential of polypyrrole via electrochemical graphene oxide for high performance zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG J, CAO JY, PENG YD, BISSETT M, KINLOCH IA, DRYFE RAW
  • 作者关键词:   zincion hybrid supercapacitor, polypyrrole, electrochemical graphene oxide, zinc halide, monovalent anion
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
  • ISSN:   0378-7753 EI 1873-2755
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  • 被引频次:   21
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230663 EA OCT 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Safe and low-cost zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitors using neutral aqueous electrolytes are promising for large scale and high power energy storage. A key challenge for Zn-ion hybrid supercapacitors is to increase their energy density without sacrificing the high power performance. Herein, we report a Zn-ion hybrid supercapacitor using a polypyrrole/electrochemical graphene oxide (PPy/EGO) composite cathode and aqueous 1 M ZnCl2 or ZnBr2 electrolytes. The Zn-PPy/EGO system with an operating cell voltage from 0.5 to 1.5 V exhibited high energy and high power densities of 117.7 and 72.1 Wh kg(-1) at 0.34 and 12.4 kW kg(-1), respectively, outperforming the Zn-ion hybrid supercapacitors using carbon cathodes. This high performance is because of the facilitated electronic and ionic transport in the PPy/EGO composite. In brief, the EGO prepared via the electrochemical method we recently reported has good structure integrity and is easily reduced; the porous PPy/EGO composite from co-electrodeposition benefits fast ion diffusion in pores; the small, monovalent halides anions in the zinc halides electrolytes are highly mobile in bulk PPy for fast solid-phase anion insertion/de-insertion. Electrochemical characterization and ex-situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy confirmed the anion-dominated charge storage mechanism of PPy/EGO cathode in Zn-PPy/EGO system.