Issue 41, 2017, Issue in Progress

Nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide intertwined with V2O3 nanoflakes as self-supported electrodes for flexible all-solid-state supercapacitors

Abstract

Flexible all-solid-state supercapacitors (SCs) have great potential applications in flexible and wearable electronics because of their safety, high power density, flexibility, and portability. Herein, a self-supported film electrode comprising nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide intertwined with vanadium trioxide nanoflakes (V2O3/N-rGO) was fabricated. The V2O3 nanoflakes have abundant active sites accessible to charge storage, and nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide provides a flexible support. The V2O3/N-rGO film electrodes exhibit high conductivity, short diffusion length for ions and electrons, and robust flexibility, resulting in excellent capacitive properties and flexibility. The flexible V2O3/N-rGO film electrode has a high areal capacitance of 216 mF cm−2 at a current density of 1 mA cm−2. All-solid-state flexible SCs assembled by sandwiching two self-supported V2O3/N-rGO hybrid electrodes with alkaline poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and LiCl gel electrolyte show an ideal volumetric capacitance of 8.1 F cm−3, an energy density of 0.55 mW h cm−3, and a power density of 0.035 W cm−3 at a current density of 0.1 A cm−3, based on the entire cell. This indicates that the self-supported V2O3/N-rGO film electrodes have great potential applications in portable and wearable flexible electronics due to their high capacitance, high energy/power density, and good mechanical flexibility.

Graphical abstract: Nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide intertwined with V2O3 nanoflakes as self-supported electrodes for flexible all-solid-state supercapacitors

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Mar 2017
Accepted
29 Apr 2017
First published
12 May 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2017,7, 25732-25739

Nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide intertwined with V2O3 nanoflakes as self-supported electrodes for flexible all-solid-state supercapacitors

Z. Q. Hou, Z. Y. Wang, L. X. Yang and Z. G. Yang, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 25732 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA02899G

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