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Supramolecular-mediated ball-in-ball porous carbon nanospheres for ultrafast energy storage

Journal

INFOMAT
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages -

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/inf2.12278

Keywords

hierarchical porous carbon; pore connectivity; supramolecular; ultrafast energy storage

Funding

  1. Shenzhen Government's Plan of Science and Technology [JCYJ20190808121407676, 20200813142301001]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong [2020A1515011127]
  3. Natural Science Foundation of China [22178223]
  4. Shenzhen University Initiative Research Program [2019005]

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This study introduces a new type of hierarchical porous carbon nanospheres with a ball-in-ball structure, featuring low pore separation distance and outstanding capacitive performance, suitable for high power and energy density supercapacitors in aqueous electrolytes.
Hierarchical porous carbons are the most viable electrode material for supercapacitors because of their balanced capacitive performance and chemical stability. Their pore connectivity plays a pivotal role in electrolyte transport, which is quantified by a new parameter, defined in this work as the longest possible pore separation (LPPS). Herein, we report hierarchical porous carbon nanospheres (HPC-NS) with a unique ball-in-ball structure, which is achieved by the pyrolysis of a supramolecular complex of gamma-cyclodextrin (gamma-CD)/PEO-PPO-PEO (F127). This approach differs from the conventional soft-templating method in that, apart from the assembly of the monomicelles that leads to the host nanospheres (approximately 300 nm), the gamma-CD-containing monomicelles themselves are converted to small porous carbon nanospheres (<10 nm), which results in an ultralow LPPS of 10 nm, representing the best-known pore connectivity of the HPC family. The HPC-NS delivers a high specific capacitance (405 F g(-1) at 1 A g(-1) and 71% capacitance retention at 200 A g(-1)), wide voltage window (up to 1.6 V), and simultaneously high energy and power densities (24.3 Wh kg(-1) at a power density of 151 W kg(-1) and 9 Wh kg(-1) at 10(5) W kg(-1)) in aqueous electrolytes. This new strategy boosts the development of porous carbon electrodes for aqueous supercapacitors with simultaneously high power and energy densities.

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