Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Bioinspired leaves-on-branchlet hybrid carbon nanostructure for supercapacitors

  • Guoping Xiong,
  • Pingge He,
  • Zhipeng Lyu,
  • Tengfei Chen,
  • Boyun Huang,
  • Lei Chen,
  • Timothy S. Fisher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03112-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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One way to improve the performance of supercapacitors is to use hybrid carbon nanomaterials. Here the authors show a bioinspired electrode design with graphene petals and carbon nanotube arrays serving as leaves and branchlets, respectively. The structure affords excellent electrochemical characteristics.