Asymmetric supercapacitors based on hybrid CuO@reduced graphene oxide@sponge versus reduced graphene oxide@sponge electrodes

An asymmetric supercapacitor was fabricated by using CuO@reduced graphene oxide@sponge (CuO@rGO@SP) composites as the positive electrode and rGO@SP as the negative electrode in NaSO aqueous electrolyte. Macroporous and low-costing sponges were explored as skeletons to construct a homogeneous 3D inte...

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Authors: Dubal, Deepak P.|||0000-0002-2337-676X, Chodankar, Nilesh R.|||0000-0002-1174-2064, Gund, Girish S.|||0000-0002-2301-6051, Holze, Rudolf|||0000-0002-3516-1918, Lokhande, Chandrakant D., Gómez-Romero, Pedro|||0000-0002-6208-5340
Format: article
Publication Date:2015
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:307873
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/307873
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1002/ente.201402170
Access Level:Open access
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Summary:An asymmetric supercapacitor was fabricated by using CuO@reduced graphene oxide@sponge (CuO@rGO@SP) composites as the positive electrode and rGO@SP as the negative electrode in NaSO aqueous electrolyte. Macroporous and low-costing sponges were explored as skeletons to construct a homogeneous 3D interconnected network of rGO. Initially, rGO was deposited on the sponge by the "dip-and-dry" method. Subsequently, a CuO nanosheet cluster was deposited by using the chemical bath deposition method on the rGO-coated sponge substrate. The CuO@rGO@SP electrodes could be operated even under a high scan rate of 200mVs and exhibited a maximum specific capacitance of 519Fg. An asymmetric supercapacitor device based on CuO@rGO@SP//rGO@SP could be cycled in the high voltage range of 1.7V and displayed high specific capacitance of 77.84Fg and a high energy density of 31.24Whkg. Impressively, this asymmetric device exhibited an excellent long cycle life and 83% of the specific capacitance was retained after 2000 cycles.