Preparation of hybrid paper electrode based on hexagonal boron nitride integrated graphene nanocomposite for free-standing flexible supercapacitors |
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Authors: | Jerome Rajendran Anatoly N. Reshetilov Ashok K. Sundramoorthy |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur-603 203 Tamil Nadu India.; G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBPM RAS), Subdivision of “Federal Research Center Pushchino Biological Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (FRC PBRC RAS), 142290 Pushchino Moscow oblast Russia |
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Abstract: | Flexible energy storage devices have received great interest due to the increasing demand for wearable and flexible electronic devices with high-power energy sources. Herein, a novel hybrid flexible hexagonal boron nitride integrated graphene paper (BN/GrP) is fabricated from 2D hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanosheets integrated with graphene sheets dispersion via a simple vacuum filtration method. FE-SEM indicated that layered graphene nanosheets tightly confined with h-BN nanosheets. Further, the Raman spectroscopy confirmed successful integration of BN with graphene. As-prepared BN/GrP free-standing flexible conductive paper showed high electrical conductivity of 5.36 × 104 S m−1 with the sheet resistance of 8.87 Ω sq−1. However, after 1000 continuous bending cycles, the BN/GrP sheet resistance increased just about 8.7% which indicated good flexibility of the paper. Furthermore, as-prepared BN/GrP showed excellent specific capacitance of 321.95 F g−1 at current density of 0.5 A g−1. In addition, the power and energy densities were obtained as 3588.3 W kg−1, and 44.7 W h kg−1, respectively. The stability of the prepared flexible electrode was tested in galvanostatic charge/discharge cycles, where the results showed the 96.3% retention even after 6000 cycles. These results exhibited that the proposed BN/GrP may be useful to prepare flexible energy-storage systems.As-prepared BN/GrP free-standing flexible conductive paper showed high electrical conductivity of 5.36 × 104 S m−1 with the sheet resistance of 8.87 Ω sq−1. Furthermore, BN/GrP showed excellent specific capacitance of 321.95 F g−1 at current density of 0.5 A g−1. In addition, the power and energy densities were obtained as 3588.3 W kg−1, and 44.7 W h kg−1. |
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