Porous carbon nanotube/graphene composites for high-performance supercapacitors

Jing Li; Jie Tang; Jinshi Yuan; Kun Zhang; Xiaoliang Yu; Yige Sun; Han Zhang; Lu Chang Qin

doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2017.12.052

Porous carbon nanotube/graphene composites for high-performance supercapacitors

Jing Li, Jie Tang, Jinshi Yuan, Kun Zhang, Xiaoliang Yu, Yige Sun, Han Zhang, Lu Chang Qin

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Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are an effective spacer to prevent the re-stacking of graphene layers. However, the aggregation of CNTs always reduces the specific surface area of resulting CNT/graphene composites. Meanwhile, different pores always have different contributions to the specific capacitance. In this study, CNT/graphene composites with different porous structures are synthesized by co-reduction of oxidized CNTs and graphene oxide with different mixing ratios. With an optimized CNT content of 20%, the CNT/graphene composite shows 206 F g⁻¹ in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate electrolyte. It is found that pores larger than twice the size of electrolyte ions can make greater contributions to the specific capacitance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	60-65
Number of pages	6
Journal	Chemical Physics Letters
Volume	693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2017.12.052
Publication status	Published - Feb 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Carbon nanotube
Graphene
Pore structure
Supercapacitor

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General Physics and Astronomy
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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