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Wafer-scale quasi-layered tungstate-doped polypyrrole film with high volumetric capacitance

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Layered materials are particularly attractive for supercapacitors because of their unique physical, electrical and chemical properties. Here, we demonstrate a facile and scalable electrochemical deposition method for wafer-scale synthesis of quasi-layered tungstate-doped polypyrrole films (named TALPy) with controllable thickness and size. The as-prepared TALPy film exhibits a high gravimetric density and excellent volumetric capacitance, exceeding many high-performing carbon- and polymer-based film electrodes. Based on combined results of ex-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), it is determined that TALPy stores charge through an ion intercalation process accompanied by change in oxidation states of polypyrrole backbone, which is referred as intercalation pseudocapacitance. All these results suggest the great promise of electrochemical deposition as a scalable and controllable bottom-up approach for synthesizing quasi-layered conductive organic-inorganic hybrid films for electrochemical energy storage applications with high volumetric performance.

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This work was financially supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project (No. DP190101008), Future Fellowship (No. FT190100058), and the UNSW Scientia Program. H. B. L. acknowledges the University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA) PhD Scholarship from UNSW Sydney. The authors thank UNSW Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre for their facilities and the scientific and technical supports. This work was performed, in part, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. Los Alamos National Laboratory, an affirmative action equal opportunity employer, is managed by Triad National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s NNSA, under contract 89233218CNA000001.

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    Huabo Liu, Jiaxing Liang, Rose Amal & Da-Wei Wang

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    Richard D. Tilley

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Liu, H., Liang, J., Watt, J. et al. Wafer-scale quasi-layered tungstate-doped polypyrrole film with high volumetric capacitance. Nano Res. 16, 4895–4900 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3783-3

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