Issue 42, 2022

Facile preparation of graphene@polyaniline nanofiber network/oxidized carbon cloth composites for high-performance flexible solid-state supercapacitors

Abstract

The complicated preparation process and low energy density of polyaniline (PANI)-based electrodes limit their wide applications in flexible energy storage devices. In this work, a reduced graphene (rGO)-wrapped polyaniline nanofiber network (PANI-NFN)/oxidized carbon cloth (OCC) (rGO@PANI-NFN/OCC) composite was prepared by a facile impregnation method using reactive templates of MnO2 on the surface of OCC. The as-prepared rGO@PANI-NFN/OCC composite exhibited a high area specific capacitance of 4438 mF cm−2 and maintained an initial capacitance of 88.2% after 3000 GCD cycles. It can be used as an independent electrode to construct flexible solid-state supercapacitors (FSSCs), and the FSSCs based on rGO@PANI-NFN/OCC also exhibit a high energy density of 117.9 μW h cm−2 and 88.39% retention after 500 bending cycles, which shows a great prospect for flexible energy storage device applications. The enhanced performance of rGO@PANI-NFN/OCC composites is mainly attributed to the synergistic effect of PANI-NFN structures with a large specific surface area and a rGO wrap layer to reduce the swelling and shrinking of PANI.

Graphical abstract: Facile preparation of graphene@polyaniline nanofiber network/oxidized carbon cloth composites for high-performance flexible solid-state supercapacitors

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Aug 2022
Accepted
09 Oct 2022
First published
21 Oct 2022

Nanoscale, 2022,14, 15908-15917

Facile preparation of graphene@polyaniline nanofiber network/oxidized carbon cloth composites for high-performance flexible solid-state supercapacitors

S. Wang, Y. Li, Q. Xu, Q. Fu, X. Guo, Y. Zheng, W. Zhang, Z. Cao, R. Li and J. Ren, Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 15908 DOI: 10.1039/D2NR04723C

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