Issue 8, 2021

Design of unique porous carbons with double support structure: toward overall performance by employing bidirectional anchoring strategy

Abstract

Supercapacitors are highly attractive in the large-scale energy storage field, but the “trade-off” between the gravimetric capacitance and the volume and area specific capacitance greatly affects their further development. In this work, we developed coralloid-like porous carbon sheets (CPCS) with double support structure via a bidirectional anchoring strategy, exhibiting ultra-low specific surface area (26.95 m2 g−1) and moderate packing density (0.75 g cm−3). In the meantime, the proposed dual-anchor structure model made the interior “self-doping” defects and the exterior “foreign-doping” defects fully exposed, which is seldom obtained by other artificial methods. Based on this, it delivered a superior overall performance in gravimetric, volumetric, and areal capacitances (308.89 F g−1, 231.67 F cm−3, and 1146 μF cm−2) and stable cyclability (10 000 cycles), which is the highest capacitance reported for polyacrylonitrile-based hard carbon without chemical/physical activation. Considering the low-energy and innovative synthesis route, our work may shed some light on developing advanced carbons promising for supercapacitors.

Graphical abstract: Design of unique porous carbons with double support structure: toward overall performance by employing bidirectional anchoring strategy

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Oct 2020
Accepted
08 Jan 2021
First published
11 Jan 2021

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021,9, 5075-5085

Design of unique porous carbons with double support structure: toward overall performance by employing bidirectional anchoring strategy

Y. Liu, C. Zhao, Q. Liu, X. Zhou, Z. Liu, J. You and A. Ying, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 5075 DOI: 10.1039/D0TA09882E

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