Frontiers in Chemistry (Aug 2019)

Liquid Phase Exfoliated Hexagonal Boron Nitride/Graphene Heterostructure Based Electrode Toward Asymmetric Supercapacitor Application

  • Xuan Zheng,
  • Guangjin Wang,
  • Guangjin Wang,
  • Fei Huang,
  • Hai Liu,
  • Chunli Gong,
  • Sheng Wen,
  • Yuanqiang Hu,
  • Genwen Zheng,
  • Dongchu Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2019.00544
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7

Abstract

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In this paper, owing to the electrostatic interaction between graphene and h-BN, a facile liquid phase exfoliation method was carried out to fabricate h-BN/graphene based van der Waals heterostructure nanocomposites without additional chemical cross-linkers. The physicochemical properties of as-prepared composites were characterized by several electron microscopic and spectroscopic measurements. The h-BN/graphene heterostructure composites were employed to use as the anodes of asymmetric supercapacitor, and exhibited exceptional capacitive performance due to their synergistic effects. It is expected that the as-prepared h-BN/graphene materials can boost scalable heterostructure electrodes in supercapacitors, and our liquid phase exfoliation method can be used for the construction of the other energy storage and electronics.

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