Publication Date:
2019
Description:
〈p〉Publication date: December 2019〈/p〉
〈p〉〈b〉Source:〈/b〉 Carbon, Volume 154〈/p〉
〈p〉Author(s): Yong He, Kaixiong Xiang, Yanfang Wang, Wei Zhou, Yirong Zhu, Li Xiao, Wenhao Chen, Xianhong Chen, Han Chen, Hua Cheng, Zhouguang Lu〈/p〉
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〈h5〉Abstract〈/h5〉
〈div〉〈p〉It is a great challenge to enhance the specific capacitance while without sacrificing the remarkable rate capability and long-term cycle durability of carbon materials for supercapacitors. Here we present a novel spherical and multi-shell hollow carbon material with tunable shell numbers and N-doping derived from a sequential synthetic route recombining hydrothermal nucleation, carbonization, and etching. The very special features, including uniform in shape and size, hollow structure, core/multi-shell architecture, hierarchical porous structures, and nitrogen doping, facilitated high specific surface area, abundant active sites, fast ion diffusions kinetics and good electrical conductivity. As a result, very superior electrochemical performance with an excellent combination of high specific capacitance (318.5 F g〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉), and outstanding rate capability (the capacity retention ratio was more than 80% when the current density was raised from 0.1 to 10 A g〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉), and very stable cycling (more than 94% capacity retention after 50000 cycles at 1 A g〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉) has been achieved. This hierarchical multi-shell strategy opens a new avenue for design of high performance electrode for next-generation energy storage devices.〈/p〉〈/div〉
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〈h5〉Graphical abstract〈/h5〉
〈div〉〈p〉A novel hollow carbon microsphere with controllable shell number and porous architecture has been prepared by a facile sequential synthetic route recombining hydrothermal nucleation, carbonization, and etching and exhibited superior electrochemical performance with an excellent combination of high specific capacitance, outstanding rate capability, and high cycling stability.〈figure〉〈img src="https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0008622319308206-fx1.jpg" width="339" alt="Image 1" title="Image 1"〉〈/figure〉〈/p〉〈/div〉
Print ISSN:
0008-6223
Electronic ISSN:
1873-3891
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Geosciences
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