Hierarchical porous carbon foam supported on carbon cloth as high-performance anodes for aqueous supercapacitorsShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Journal of Power Sources, ISSN 0378-7753, E-ISSN 1873-2755, Vol. 439, article id 227066Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Carbon anodes have been widely utilized for the fabrication of high-performance asymmetric supercapacitors. However, they generally suffer from unsatisfactory energy density due to low specific capacitance arising from inferior conductivity and insufficient ionic diffusion rate. Here a surface modification method is conducted after the annealing of ZIF-67 precursor to produce hydrophilic, porous and heteroatom-doped carbon foam. On top of enhanced area capacitance, widened voltage window of −1.3–0 V (vs saturated calomel electrode) can be achieved through electrochemical reduction to suppress the hydrogen evolution reaction. The optimized reduced porous carbon foam on carbon cloth exhibits a maximum area capacitance of 1049 mF/cm2 at an applied current density of 12 mA/cm2 with excellent capacitance retention of 98.4% after 6000 charge-discharge cycles at 15 mA/cm2. By well pairing with hierarchical MnO2/CC cathode, a 2.3 V asymmetric supercapacitor in neutral aqueous Na2SO4 electrolyte is assembled, which delivers an exceptional energy density of up to 10.07 mWh/cm3. The procedure in this paper for carbonaceous material to simultaneously achieve considerable capacitance and enlarged voltage window can open up a wider prospect toward design of anodes for high-performance aqueous supercapacitor.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2019. Vol. 439, article id 227066
Keywords [en]
Electro-etching, Porous carbon foam, Binder-free electrode, High-voltage supercapacitor
National Category
Other Physics Topics
Research subject
Experimental Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-75947DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.227066ISI: 000494891700033Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85071726562OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-75947DiVA, id: diva2:1350047
Note
Validerad;2019;Nivå 2;2019-11-22 (johcin)
2019-09-102019-09-102023-09-06Bibliographically approved