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Asymmetric supercapacitors based on nickel decorated graphene and porous graphene electrodes

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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
卷 424, 期 -, 页码 -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2022.140626

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Graphene; Ni-nanoparticles; Asymmetric supercapacitors; Energy storage

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  1. Cariplo Foundation [2019-2152]

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Thermal exfoliation of graphite oxide is a scalable method to produce defective graphene-based compounds as electrode materials for high-performance electrochemical supercapacitors. Decorating defective graphene with Ni nanoparticles enhances the specific capacitance of the electrodes by one order of magnitude, reaching up to 1900 F/g. An asymmetric supercapacitor fabricated with a pure graphene negative electrode and a Ni-decorated graphene positive electrode demonstrates good reversibility and stability in an aqueous electrolyte.
Thermal exfoliation of graphite oxide is a scalable way to produce macroscopic amount of defective graphenebased compounds with high specific surface area, ideal as electrode materials in high-performance electrochemical supercapacitors. In order to increase the stored energy, defective graphene has been decorated with Ni nanoparticles without exposing the system to air. During the first charge cycle in an aqueous electrolyte (KOH 3.5 M), Ni anchored to graphene proved to easily convert to Ni(OH)2 at the nanoscale and hence to reversibly assume Ni2+ and Ni3+ valence during cyclic voltammetry, through its conversion to NiOOH. Such reversible faradaic mechanism led to a one order of magnitude increase of the specific capacitance of electrodes, reaching up to 1900 F/g at 2 mV/s in KOH 3.5 M. An asymmetric supercapacitor was obtained by coupling a pure graphene negative electrode with a Ni decorated graphene positive one. The supercapacitor, operating with aqueous electrolyte, was successfully cycled in the 0-1.5 V voltage range, reaching a maximum specific energy of 37 Wh/ kg and a maximum specific power of 5 kW/kg. The devices displayed good reversibility and retained 72% of the specific energy over 10 thousand of cycles. Such promising results disclose to possible industrial implementation of graphene-based supercapacitors, for a wide range of energetic application.

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