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Vertically stacked holey graphene/polyaniline heterostructures with enhanced energy storage for on-chip micro-supercapacitors

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Planar micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) have drawn extensive research attention owing to their unique structural design and size compatibility for microelectronic devices. Graphene has been widely used to improve the performance of microscale electrochemical capacitors. However, investigations of an intrinsic electrochemical mechanism for graphene-based microscale devices are still not sufficient. Here, micro-supercapacitors with various typical architectures are fabricated as models to study the graphene effect, and their electrochemical performance is also evaluated. The results show that ionic accessibility and adsorption are greatly improved after the introduction of the holey graphene intermediate layer. This study provides a new route to understand intrinsic electrochemical behaviors and possesses exciting potential for highly efficient on-chip micro-energy storage.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Xiaocong Tian, Bei Xiao, Xu Xu, Zehua Liu, Zhaoyang Wang, Mengyu Yan, Qiulong Wei & Liqiang Mai

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA

    Xu Xu

  3. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA

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Tian, X., Xiao, B., Xu, X. et al. Vertically stacked holey graphene/polyaniline heterostructures with enhanced energy storage for on-chip micro-supercapacitors. Nano Res. 9, 1012–1021 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-0989-x

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