120th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Symposium
Area Current Trends in Energy Nanomaterials
Room No. Room 214
Time FRI 14:30-:
Code MAT2-1
Subject Nanostructured Graphene for Supercapacitor Electrodes with High Performance and Stretchability
Authors Jeong Gon Son
Photo-electronic Hybrids Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Abstract

Chemically derived graphene oxide (GO) and its derivatives are promising candidates for a variety of carbon-based functional nanostructures and hybrid architectures, because of their unique characteristics that include high theoretical surface area, tunable electrical conductivity, excellent solution processability, and high mass producibility at low cost. However, the irreversible stacking due to the strong π–π interactions between graphene nanosheets during drying or reduction processes significantly decreases the solution processability as well as accessible surface area. In this talk, we fabricated three-dimensional (3D) graphene structures with templated-assisted crumpled graphene approach and directionally porous ice-templated approach for the energy storage application, such as supercapacitor electrodes. We introduce a sea urchin-like spiky template with simultaneous chemical etching/reduction process for the fabrication of 3D crumpled graphene balls. And, using a facile ice-templated self-assembly process with reduced graphene sheets and vanadium phosphate (VOPO4) nanosheets, we realize a three-dimensional (3D) porous graphene/VOPO4 nanosheet nanocomposite with high surface area and high electrical conductivity for the enhanced pseudocapacitive properties. In the last part, we also used the ice-templated vertically porous graphene nanostructures as a stretchable supercapacitor electrode. Radially compressed honeycomb structures exhibited nearly-zero poission ratio structures and maintained their structure and electrical conductivity even at 50 % of starched states. The capacitive performance of these compressed honeycomb structures also shows fairly high over 130 F/g and these high performance still be maintained at highly stretched condition.

E-mail jgson@kist.re.kr