Nanoarchitectured Nitrogen-Doped Graphene/Carbon Nanotube as High Performance Electrodes for Solid State Supercapacitors, Capacitive Deionization, Li-Ion Battery, and Metal-Free Bifunctional Electrocatalysis

Authors

Shaikh N. Faisal, University of Wollongong, University of SydneyFollow
Chandrasekar Mayandi Subramaniyam, University of WollongongFollow
Md Enamul Haque, Deakin University, University of SydneyFollow
Md. Monirul Islam, University of WollongongFollow
Nikan Noorbehesht, University of Sydney
Anup Kumar Roy, University of Sydney
Mohammad Saiful Islam, University of Sydney
Hua-Kun Liu, University of WollongongFollow
Shi Xue Dou, University of WollongongFollow
Andrew T. Harris, University of Sydney
Andrew I. Minett, University of SydneyFollow

RIS ID

135301

Publication Details

Faisal, S. Nayeem., Mayandi Subramaniyam, C., Haque, E., Islam, M., Noorbehesht, N., Roy, A., Islam, M. Saiful., Liu, H. Kun., Dou, S. Xue., Harris, A. T. & Minett, A. I. (2018). Nanoarchitectured Nitrogen-Doped Graphene/Carbon Nanotube as High Performance Electrodes for Solid State Supercapacitors, Capacitive Deionization, Li-Ion Battery, and Metal-Free Bifunctional Electrocatalysis. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 1 (10), 5211-5223.

Abstract

A three-dimensional nanostructured nitrogen-doped graphene/carbon nanotube composite has been synthesized via a thermal annealing process, using the high surface attachment properties of uric acid (solid nitrogen precursor) with graphene oxide and oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotube. In the synthesis procedures, the attachment of uric acid to graphene oxide surfaces and the oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes via hydrogen bonding and electrostatic forces in the solution leads to a lamellar nanostructure during thermal annealing by the proper insertion of carbon nanotubes in graphene layers with nitrogen doping. The resultant composite has good atomic percentage of N (11.2 at. %) and shows superior electrochemical energy storage and conversion properties compared with nitrogen-doped graphene only and physically mixed nitrogen-doped graphene and nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube samples. The composite exhibits high gravimetric and volumetric capacitance (324 F g -1 at a current density of 1 A g -1 ) as electrode in solid-state supercapacitors, superior capacitive deionization (440 F g -1 at a current density of 1 A g -1 ) in 1 M sodium chloride solution, and as high-performance anode in lithium-ion batteries (1150 mAh g -1 at 0.1 A g -1 ) with long-term cycling stability. In addition, the composite demonstrates efficient metal-free bifunctional electrocatalysis toward the oxygen reduction and evolution reactions, comparable with the commercial electrocatalysts.