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Facile synthesis of sandwich-like polyaniline/boron-doped graphene nano hybrid for supercapacitors.
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Carbon . Jan2015, Vol. 81, p552-563. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The physicochemical property of chemically prepared graphene can be significantly changed due to the incorporating of heteroatoms into graphene. In this article, boron-doped graphene sheets are used as carbon substrates instead of graphene for loading polyaniline by in situ polymerization. Compared with the individual component and polyaniline/non-doped graphene, the sandwich-like polyaniline/boron-doped graphene exhibits remarkably enhanced electrochemical specific capacitance in both acid and alkaline electrolytes. In a three-electrode configuration, the hybrid has a specific capacitance about 406 F g −1 in 1 M H 2 SO 4 and 318 F g −1 in 6 M KOH at 1 mV s −1 . In the two-electrode system of a symmetric supercapacitor, this hybrid achieves a specific capacitance about 241 and 189 F g −1 at 0.5 A g −1 with a specific energy density around 19.9 and 30.1 Wh kg −1 , in the acid and alkaline electrolytes, respectively. The as-obtained polyaniline/boron-doped graphene hybrid shows good rate performance. Notably, the obtained electrode materials exhibit long cycle stability in both acid and alkaline electrolytes (∼100% and 83% after 5000 cycles, respectively). The improved electrochemical performance of the hybrid is mainly attributed to the introduction of additional p -type carriers in carbon systems by boron-doping and the well combination of pseudocapacitive conducting polyaniline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00086223
- Volume :
- 81
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Carbon
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 99333835
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2014.09.090