Supercapacitor electrode based on few-layer h-BNNSs/rGO composite for wide-temperature-range operation with robust stable cycling performance

Tao Yang; Hui-juan Liu; Fan Bai; En-hui Wang; Jun-hong Chen; Kuo-Chih Chou; Xin-mei Hou

doi:10.1007/s12613-019-1910-x

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Tao Yang, Hui-juan Liu, Fan Bai, En-hui Wang, Jun-hong Chen, Kuo-Chih Chou, and Xin-mei Hou, Supercapacitor electrode based on few-layer h-BNNSs/rGO composite for wide-temperature-range operation with robust stable cycling performance, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 27(2020), No. 2, pp. 220-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-019-1910-x

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Tao Yang, Hui-juan Liu, Fan Bai, En-hui Wang, Jun-hong Chen, Kuo-Chih Chou, and Xin-mei Hou, Supercapacitor electrode based on few-layer h-BNNSs/rGO composite for wide-temperature-range operation with robust stable cycling performance, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 27(2020), No. 2, pp. 220-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-019-1910-x

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Supercapacitor electrode based on few-layer h-BNNSs/rGO composite for wide-temperature-range operation with robust stable cycling performance

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Xin-mei Hou E-mail: houxinmeiustb@ustb.edu.cn
Received: 25 June 2019; Revised: 2 September 2019; Accepted: 11 September 2019; Available online: 29 October 2019

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Currently, developing supercapacitors with robust cycle stability and suitability for wide-temperature-range operations is still a huge challenge. In the present work, few-layer hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets (h-BNNSs) with a thickness of 2−4 atomic layers were fabricated via vacuum freeze-drying and nitridation. Then, the h-BNNSs/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) composite were further prepared using a hydrothermal method. Due to the combination of two two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals-bonded materials, the as-prepared h-BNNSs/rGO electrode exhibited robustness to wide-temperature-range operations from −10 to 50°C. When the electrodes worked in a neutral aqueous electrolyte (1 M Na₂SO₄), they showed a great stable cycling performance with almost 107% reservation of the initial capacitance at 0°C and 111% at 50°C for 5000 charge−discharge cycles.
- few-layer;
- hexagonal boron nitride;
- wide-temperature-range operation;
- cycling performance

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