• 文献标题:   Towards ultrahigh volumetric capacitance: graphene derived highly dense but porous carbons for supercapacitors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TAO Y, XIE XY, LV W, TANG DM, KONG DB, HUANG ZH, NISHIHARA H, ISHII T, LI BH, GOLBERG D, KANG FY, KYOTANI T, YANG QH
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
  • ISSN:   2045-2322
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tianjin Univ
  • 被引频次:   343
  • DOI:   10.1038/srep02975
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

A small volumetric capacitance resulting from a low packing density is one of the major limitations for novel nanocarbons finding real applications in commercial electrochemical energy storage devices. Here we report a carbon with a density of 1.58 g cm(-3), 70% of the density of graphite, constructed of compactly interlinked graphene nanosheets, which is produced by an evaporation-induced drying of a graphene hydrogel. Such a carbon balances two seemingly incompatible characteristics: a porous microstructure and a high density, and therefore has a volumetric capacitance for electrochemical capacitors (ECs) up to 376 F cm(-3), which is the highest value so far reported for carbon materials in an aqueous electrolyte. More promising, the carbon is conductive and moldable, and thus could be used directly as a well-shaped electrode sheet for the assembly of a supercapacitor device free of any additives, resulting in device-level high energy density ECs.