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In situ preparation of a SAC-RGO@Ni electrode by electrochemical functionalization of reduced graphene oxide using sulfanilic acid azocromotrop and its application in asymmetric supercapacitors

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Title In situ preparation of a SAC-RGO@Ni electrode by electrochemical functionalization of reduced graphene oxide using sulfanilic acid azocromotrop and its application in asymmetric supercapacitors
 
Creator Saha, Sanjit
Jana, Milan
Samanta, Pranab
Murmu, Naresh Chandra
Kuila, Tapas
 
Subject Chemistry
 
Description In situ electro-deposition, reduction and functionalization of graphene oxide (GO) with sulfanilic acid azocromotrop (SAC) were carried out through a facile one-step electrochemical method. Nickel foam was used as the anode during the electro-deposition and the aqueous solution of SAC along with GO was used as the electrolyte. The SAC modified reduced GO (RGO) was deposited on the nickel foam (SAC-RGO@Ni) and was directly used as the electrode for capacitive property analysis. The reduction and functionalization of GO were examined by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) techniques. The SAC-RGO@Ni provides a very high specific capacitance of ∼1090 F g−1 due to the synergistic effect of double layer capacitance of RGO and the pseudocapacitance of –SO3H functionalities of SAC. An asymmetric supercapacitor (ASC) cell was designed with SAC-RGO@Ni and thermally reduced GO (TRGO) as positive and negative electrodes, respectively. The ASC device exhibits a high effective capacitance of ∼495 F g−1 at a current density of 10 A g−1 and ∼93% of its total discharging time lies in-between 1.5 and 0.75 V. The ASC cell remains stable up to 10[thin space (1/6-em)]000 charge–discharge cycles. Furthermore, the SAC-RGO@Ni-based ASC device can provide a very high energy density of ∼88.9 W h kg−1 and a large power density of 16[thin space (1/6-em)]500 W kg−1 ensuring its applicability in high power consumption devices.
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Identifier Saha, Sanjit and Jana, Milan and Samanta, Pranab and Murmu, Naresh Chandra and Kuila, Tapas (2015) In situ preparation of a SAC-RGO@Ni electrode by electrochemical functionalization of reduced graphene oxide using sulfanilic acid azocromotrop and its application in asymmetric supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3. pp. 19461-19468.
 
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