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Active carbon electrode fabricated via large-scale coating-transfer process for high-performance supercapacitor

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Electrodes play important roles on the performance of supercapacitors, and low-cost, large-scale fabrication of high-performance electrodes is closely related to the actual application of supercapacitors. Herein, a low-cost, large-scale coating-transfer method was developed to fabricate high-performance carbon electrodes with excellent homogeneity, high conductivity, and large surface area. Symmetric button supercapacitors using active carbon as the electrode material fabricated via coating-transfer process exhibit good specific capacitance up to 211 F g−1 at 0.1 A g−1 in 1 M neutral aqueous electrolyte, which shows 40% improvement as compared with convention rolling process. Furthermore, these supercapacitors present high repeatability and excellent performance stability. The research demonstrates that the low-cost, large-scale coating-transfer process shows great potentials in practical application for fabricating high-performance supercapacitors.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51673214), the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2015JJ1015), and the Project of Innovation-driven Plan in Central South University (2015CXS036).

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    Hui Guo, Zheng Liu & Xiaohua Chen

  2. Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-Microstructure and Ultrafast Process, School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China

    Hui Guo, Hengyue Li, Han Wu, Chujun Zhang & Junliang Yang

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Guo, H., Liu, Z., Li, H. et al. Active carbon electrode fabricated via large-scale coating-transfer process for high-performance supercapacitor. Appl. Phys. A 123, 467 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1069-0

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