An interfacial self-assembly strategy to fabricate graphitic hollow porous carbon spheres for supercapacitor electrodes

ZHANG Xiao-hua; GAN Xin-yu; LIU Bao-sheng; YAN Xiao-yan; ZHAO Xin-xin

doi:10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60062-8

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ZHANG Xiao-hua, GAN Xin-yu, LIU Bao-sheng, YAN Xiao-yan, ZHAO Xin-xin. An interfacial self-assembly strategy to fabricate graphitic hollow porous carbon spheres for supercapacitor electrodes. New Carbon Mater., 2021, 36(3): 594-605. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60062-8

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ZHANG Xiao-hua, GAN Xin-yu, LIU Bao-sheng, YAN Xiao-yan, ZHAO Xin-xin. An interfacial self-assembly strategy to fabricate graphitic hollow porous carbon spheres for supercapacitor electrodes. New Carbon Mater., 2021, 36(3): 594-605. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60062-8

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ZHANG Xiao-hua, GAN Xin-yu, LIU Bao-sheng, YAN Xiao-yan, ZHAO Xin-xin. An interfacial self-assembly strategy to fabricate graphitic hollow porous carbon spheres for supercapacitor electrodes. New Carbon Mater., 2021, 36(3): 594-605. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60062-8

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An interfacial self-assembly strategy to fabricate graphitic hollow porous carbon spheres for supercapacitor electrodes

doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60062-8

College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

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Corresponding author: ZHANG Xiao-hua. E-mail: xiaohuaz@tyust.edu.cn; LIU Bao-sheng. E-mail: liubaosheng@tyust.edu.cn
Received Date: 2021-03-01
Rev Recd Date: 2021-04-02

Available Online: 2021-05-08

Publish Date: 2021-06-01

Abstract

Abstract

Graphitic hollow porous carbon spheres (GHPCSs) have the advantages of a unique cavity structure, high surface area and excellent conductivity, and are promising electrode materials for energy storage. A Fe–tannic acid (TA) framework synthesized using TA as the carbon source and K₃ [Fe(C₂O₄)₃] as a complexing agent, was self-assembled onto a melamine foam, which was converted to GHPCSs by carbonization, where the K₃ [Fe(C₂O₄) ₃] also acts as an activating-graphitizing agent. The outer shell of the as-prepared GHPCSs has a large specific surface area, a micropore-dominated structure and excellent electrical conductivity, which ensure a large enough active surface area for charge accumulation and fast ion/electron transport in the partially graphitized carbon framework and pores. The optimum GHPCS has a high capacitance of 332.7 F g⁻¹ at 1 A g⁻¹. An assembled symmetric supercapacitor has a high energy density of 23.7 Wh kg⁻¹ at 459.1 W kg⁻¹ in 1 mol L^-1 Na₂SO₄. In addition, the device has long-term cycling stability with a 92.1% retention rate after 10 000 cycles. This study not only provides an economic and time-saving approach for constructing GHPCSs by a self-assembly method, but also optimizes ion/electron transport in the carbon spheres to give them excellent performance in capacitive energy storage.
- Hollow carbon sphere,
- Graphitization,
- Tannic acid,
- Supercapacitor

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