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Highly ordered graphene architectures by duplicating melamine sponges as a three-dimensional deformation-tolerant electrode

Le Li, Kai Wang, Zhaoqi Huang, Chao Zhang( ), Tianxi Liu( )
State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials & College of Materials Science and EngineeringDonghua UniversityShanghai201620China
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Abstract

In this study, macroscopic graphene-wrapped melamine foams (MF-G) were fabricated by an MF-templated layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly using graphene oxide as building blocks, followed by solution-processed reduction. By concisely duplicating sponge-like, highly ordered three-dimensional architectures from MF, the resulting MF-G with an interconnected graphene-based scaffold and tunable nanostructure was explored as compressible, robust electrodes for efficient energy storage. A thin layer of pseudocapacitive polypyrrole (PPy) was then attached and uniformly coated on MF-G, resulting in a well-defined core–double-shell configuration of the MF-G-PPy ternary composite sponges. The as-assembled devices exhibited enhancement of supercapacitor performance, with a high specific capacitance of 427 F·g-1 under a compressive strain of 75% and an excellent cycling stability with only 18% degradation after 5, 000 charge–discharge cycles. Besides, the MF-G-PPy electrode maintained stable capacitance up to 100 compression–release cycles, with a compressive strain of 75%. These encouraging results thus provide a new route towards the low-cost, easily scalable fabrication of lightweight and deformation-tolerant electrodes.

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graphenelayer-by-layer self-assemblyhighly ordered architectureconducting polymerdeformation-tolerant electrode

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Nano Research
Volume 9 Issue 10,
October 2016
Pages 2938-2949
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-016-1179-6
Cite this article:
Li L, Wang K, Huang Z, et al. Highly ordered graphene architectures by duplicating melamine sponges as a three-dimensional deformation-tolerant electrode. Nano Research, 2016, 9(10): 2938-2949. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-1179-6

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Received: 26 April 2016
Revised: 12 June 2016
Accepted: 13 June 2016
Published: 15 July 2016
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