Issue 31, 2015

A post-oxidation strategy for the synthesis of graphene/carbon nanotube-supported polyaniline nanocomposites as advanced supercapacitor electrodes

Abstract

A post-oxidation strategy was proposed to synthesize sulfonated graphene nanosheets/carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotube-supported PANI (sGNS/cMWCNT@PANI) hierarchical nanocomposites by an interfacial polymerization as advanced supercapacitor electrodes. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) indicated that the morphology with a coexisting structure of sGNS supported PANI nanorod arrays and coaxial cMWCNT/PANI nanocables did not show significant differences through a post-oxidation process. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermogravimetic analysis (TGA) proved that the oligomers of PANI were eliminated during the post-oxidation process. The spectral analysis revealed that the post-oxidation led to an increasing content of quinoid structure in the nanocomposites. Electrochemical measurements showed that the sGNS/cMWCNT@PANI with a post-oxidation process exhibited improved cycling stability with 91.4% capacitance retention after 5000 cycles.

Graphical abstract: A post-oxidation strategy for the synthesis of graphene/carbon nanotube-supported polyaniline nanocomposites as advanced supercapacitor electrodes

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Nov 2014
Accepted
26 Feb 2015
First published
27 Feb 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 24599-24606

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A post-oxidation strategy for the synthesis of graphene/carbon nanotube-supported polyaniline nanocomposites as advanced supercapacitor electrodes

D. Lv, J. Shen and G. Wang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 24599 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA13737J

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