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Time-intended effect on electrochemical performance of hydrothermally reduced graphene oxide nanosheets: Design and study of solid-state symmetric supercapacitor

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Self-organized porous sheet-like assemblies have attracted extensive attention for the development of flexible high-performance electrodes. This work demonstrates the facile synthesis and effects of reduction time on the electrochemical performance of porous sheet-like assemblies of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) on carbon cloth. An rGO porous assembly with a reduction time of 4 h exhibited a superior specific capacitance of 456 F/g at a scan rate of 5 mV/s and 223 F/g at a current density of 1 mA/cm2, with ~ 93.9% initial capacity retention over 2000 cycles. A solid-state symmetric supercapacitor device constructed of a rGO4//rGO4 porous assembly achieved a specific capacitance of 45.86 F/g at a scan rate of 5 mV/s and yielded an energy density of 1.27 Wh/kg and specific power of 833.3 W/kg in a PVA-H2SO4 gel polymer electrolyte. Furthermore, the flexible solid-state symmetric device provides outstanding cyclic stability with a 95.3% retention of its initial capacity over 2000 cycles. Thus, electrodes constructed of rGO porous sheets show great potential for flexible and transparent solid-state symmetric energy storage devices.

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Abbreviations

GO:

Graphene oxide

rGO:

Reduced graphene oxide

CVD:

Chemical vapor deposition

CMG:

Chemical modification of graphene

CC:

Carbon cloth

XRD:

X-ray diffractometry

FE-SEM:

Field-emission scanning electron microscopy

TEM:

Transmission electron microscopy

XPS:

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

BET:

Brunauer–Emmett–Teller

V:

Cyclic voltammetry

SCE:

Saturated calomel electrode

GCD:

Galvanostatic charge–discharge

SAED:

Selected area electron diffraction

BJH:

Barret–Joyner–Halenda

EIS:

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

FSS:

Flexible solid-state symmetric

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This study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2020R1A2C1015206, NRF-2019M3F5A1A01077146, and NRF-2017M1A2A2048904). S.L.K. Would like thank to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India for providing senior research fellowship CSIR-SRF Award No.: 09/877(100)2K18.

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    Snehal L. Kadam, Rahul S. Ingole & Shrinivas B. Kulkarni

  2. Department of Physics, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, 38541, Republic of Korea

    Sagar M. Mane & Jae Cheol Shin

  3. Department of Physics, Vidnyan Mahavidyalaya, Sangola, Solapur Maharashtra, 413307, India

    Shankar S. Dhasade

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Kadam, S.L., Mane, S.M., Ingole, R.S. et al. Time-intended effect on electrochemical performance of hydrothermally reduced graphene oxide nanosheets: Design and study of solid-state symmetric supercapacitor. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 14901–14918 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-06042-x

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