Esqueda-Barrón Yasmín, Pérez Del Pino Angel, Lebière Pablo García, Musheghyan-Avetisyan Arevik, Bertran-Serra Enric, György Enikö, Logofatu Constantin
Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Applied Physics Department, Barcelona University, Martí i Franquès, 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2021 Apr 21;13(15):17957-17970. doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c00951. Epub 2021 Apr 12.
Major research efforts are being carried out for the technological advancement to an energetically sustainable society. However, for the full commercial integration of electrochemical energy storage devices, not only materials with higher performance should be designed and manufactured but also more competitive production techniques need to be developed. The laser processing technology is well extended at the industrial sector for the versatile and high throughput modification of a wide range of materials. In this work, a method based on laser processing is presented for the fabrication of hybrid electrodes composed of graphene nanowalls (GNWs) coated with different transition-metal oxide nanostructures for electrochemical capacitor (EC) applications. GNW/stainless steel electrodes grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition were decorated with metal oxide nanostructures by means of their laser surface processing while immersed in aqueous organometallic solutions. The pseudocapacitive nature of the laser-induced crystallized oxide materials prompted an increase of the GNW electrodes' capacitance by 3 orders of magnitude, up to ca. 28 F/cm at 10 mV/s, at both the positive and negative voltages. Finally, asymmetric aqueous and solid-state ECs revealed excellent stability upon tens of thousands of charge-discharge cycles.
为了实现向能源可持续社会的技术进步,人们正在进行大量的研究工作。然而,对于电化学储能装置的全面商业整合,不仅需要设计和制造性能更高的材料,还需要开发更具竞争力的生产技术。激光加工技术在工业领域得到了广泛应用,可对各种材料进行多功能、高通量的改性。在这项工作中,提出了一种基于激光加工的方法,用于制造由涂覆有不同过渡金属氧化物纳米结构的石墨烯纳米壁(GNW)组成的混合电极,用于电化学电容器(EC)应用。通过等离子体增强化学气相沉积生长的GNW/不锈钢电极在浸入有机金属水溶液中时,通过激光表面处理用金属氧化物纳米结构进行修饰。激光诱导结晶氧化物材料的赝电容特性使GNW电极的电容在正负电压下均增加了3个数量级,在10 mV/s时高达约28 F/cm²。最后,非对称水性和固态EC在数万次充放电循环中表现出优异的稳定性。