Superior environmentally friendly stretchable supercapacitor based on nitrogen-doped graphene/hydrogel and single-walled carbon nanotubes

Evgeniia Gilshtein* (Corresponding Author), Cristina Flox, Farhan S.M. Ali, Bahareh Mehrabimatin, Fedor S. Fedorov, Shaoting Lin, Xuanhe Zhao, Albert G. Nasibulin (Corresponding Author), Tanja Kallio

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Abstract

Lightweight and flexible supercapacitors with high volumetric capacitance are vitally required for wearable and portable energy storage devices. We propose an eco-friendly, simple-to-fabricate high performance supercapacitor, which consists of a solid state material based on nitrogen-doped graphene flake electrodes distributed in the NaCl-containing hydrogel electrolyte, achieving a large surface area interface. Stretchability is achieved by sandwiching this structure between two single-walled carbon nanotube film current collectors. The as-prepared quasi-solid material exhibits outstanding volumetric capacitive performance, high energy density and power density values, attaining corresponding values of 806 F cm−3, 112 mW h cm−3 and 294 W cm−3 at 0.3 A g−1. This superior capacitive behavior is due to the excellent network comprising NaCl-containing hydrogel, N-Graphene powder and carbon nanotube film, offering new strategy for developing of sustainable high-performance supercapacitors.

Original languageEnglish
Article number101505
JournalJournal of Energy Storage
Volume30
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2020
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

E.P.G and T.K. thank the Academy of Finland in the framework of Mobility Grant 318114 "Fabrication of highly stretchable and high performing energy storage devices" for funding. This work was also supported by Skoltech NGP Program (Skoltech-MIT joint project). This work made use of RAMI research premises. A.G.N. acknowledges Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project #20-03-00804).

Keywords

  • Composite powder
  • Doped hydrogel
  • Energy storage
  • Nitrogen-doped graphene
  • Stretchable supercapacitor

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