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:10.1038/s41467-018-03112-3

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

Affiliations

Guoping Xiong: Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
Pingge He: Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
Zhipeng Lyu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University
Tengfei Chen: State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University
Boyun Huang: State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University
Lei Chen: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University
Timothy S. Fisher: Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University

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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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