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Flexible asymmetric microsupercapacitor with high energy density based on all-graphene electrode system

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The growing interest and rapid development of portable and flexible wearable electronics has significantly escalated the need of designing miniaturized on-chip energy storage and conversion units as power sources for smart electronic devices. Current aqueous microsupercapacitors suffer from a low energy density due to their small working potential, which limits their potential application. This study presents the fabrication of a 1.6 V flexible, aqueous asymmetric microsupercapacitor (AMSC) with 83% capacitance retention after 5000 cycles which designed by the integration and voltage balance of functionalized graphene-based cathode as a double-layer supercapacitive electrode and iodine-doped graphene anode as a pseudocapacitive electrode. The combination of electrostatic and faradic charge storage mechanism in this all-graphene-based AMSC enables the device to deliver an ultra-high energy–power density (4.75 mWh cm−3 at 61.55 W cm−3) and a stabilized performance even after 2000 repeated bending cycles, which suggests the promising potential of the all-graphene AMSC as a substantial power source for future flexible electronic devices.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFF0204302), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51872305) and the Key R&D Program of Zhejiang Province (Grant No. 2018C01049).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Graphene Technologies and Applications of Zhejiang Province and Advanced Li-ion Battery Engineering Lab, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

    Ahmad Hassan Siddique, Syeda Wishal Bokhari, Rehman Butt, Shunqiong Jiang, Wen Chen, Xufeng Zhou & Zhaoping Liu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

    Ahmad Hassan Siddique, Rehman Butt, Shunqiong Jiang & Wen Chen

  3. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand

    Syeda Wishal Bokhari

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Siddique, A.H., Bokhari, S.W., Butt, R. et al. Flexible asymmetric microsupercapacitor with high energy density based on all-graphene electrode system. J Mater Sci 55, 309–318 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-03987-7

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