Membrane based In-situ reduction of graphene oxide for electrochemical supercapacitor application

Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is a widely studied electrode material for energy storage, however, its strong re-stacking tendency during chemical reduction always leads to a degraded specific surface area and thus limits its performance. Therefore, it is necessary to control the morphology of rGO dur...

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Autores: Lin, Tongxi|||0009-0004-3406-9011, Ren, Xiaojun|||0009-0001-9482-7898, Wen, Xinyue|||0000-0003-3785-2218, Karton, Amir|||0000-0002-7981-508X, Quintano, Vanesa|||0000-0001-9109-9832, Joshi, Rakesh|||0000-0002-7497-9499
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:293517
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/293517
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2024.119053
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Reduced graphene oxide
Vitamin C
Supercapacitor
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Sumario:Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is a widely studied electrode material for energy storage, however, its strong re-stacking tendency during chemical reduction always leads to a degraded specific surface area and thus limits its performance. Therefore, it is necessary to control the morphology of rGO during the reduction process. Here, we develop a novel in-situ membrane-based method for the reduction of graphene oxide (GO) using a green and efficient vitamin C (VC) aqueous solution as reductant. The obtained electrode material (vitamin C reduced GO via membrane-based method, VG-M) exhibits a specific capacitance of 174 F/g at 1 A/g and 75.9% of retention at 40 A/g, which is about 9 times better than the highly self-stacked material from conventional methods (vitamin C reduced GO via stirring method, VG-S). This designed method successfully achieves the maintenance of rGO sheet morphology through laminar confinement in GO membrane and presents a simple approach towards two-dimensional (2D) material morphology control.