Issue 43, 2015

Robust reduced graphene oxide paper fabricated with a household non-stick frying pan: a large-area freestanding flexible substrate for supercapacitors

Abstract

Inspired by cooking omelettes, a facile, low-cost and scalable method involving the use of a readily available household non-stick frying pan is introduced to fabricate large-area freestanding reduced graphene oxide (RGO) paper. The as-fabricated RGO paper is robust enough to bear sandpaper polishing, bending/folding, and hydrothermal and electrochemical deposition processes without obvious structure/performance degradation. As a demonstration, the as-obtained RGO papers were directly used as universal flexible substrates for high performance supercapacitors (SCs). Thus, WO3 and PPy, which are two distinctive active materials, were loaded onto the RGO paper via a hydrothermal process and electrodeposition process, respectively, which are two typical fabrication methods for high performance SC electrodes. The resultant WO3– and PPy–RGO paper, which act as negative and positive electrodes, respectively, were further assembled into a flexible asymmetric supercapacitor (ASC), achieving a high energy density of 0.23 mW h cm−3 at a power density of 7.3 mW cm−3 when normalized to the whole volume. Moreover, benefiting from the robust flexible RGO substrate, the performance of the ASC showed great stability under different bending angles and after repeated bending/folding. These exciting results demonstrate that our robust RGO paper is an ideal universal substrate for different active materials synthesized via various processing methods, which show its great potential in an all-solid energy storage system with excellent flexibility and robustness.

Graphical abstract: Robust reduced graphene oxide paper fabricated with a household non-stick frying pan: a large-area freestanding flexible substrate for supercapacitors

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Feb 2015
Accepted
27 Mar 2015
First published
27 Mar 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 33981-33989

Author version available

Robust reduced graphene oxide paper fabricated with a household non-stick frying pan: a large-area freestanding flexible substrate for supercapacitors

Y. Huang, M. Zhu, W. Meng, Y. Fu, Z. Wang, Y. Huang, Z. Pei and C. Zhi, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 33981 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA02868J

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