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Hierarchically porous carbon microfibers for solid-state supercapacitors

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The architectures of sustainable carbon fibers are highly acquired from the perspective of supercapacitor (SC) applications, which has stimulated the exploration of advanced functional carbons for further enhancing the SC performance. Here, through integrating the strategies of ternary hybridization and chemical activation into one structure, hierarchically porous N-doped carbon microfiber sample (CPZ-AC), using a hybrid precursor of polyaniline (PANI) and ZIF-8 in situ grown on cotton thread, is rationally produced. It displays ideal capacitive properties especially with superior rate capability of 80% retention at a 100-fold rate. Moreover, the solid-state CPZ-AC//PVA/KOH (gel)//CPZ-AC SC achieves the highest power and energy densities of up to 4705.9 W kg−1 at 30 A g−1 and 5.2 Wh kg−1 at 0.5 A g−1, and decent cycling stability with 0.0015% capacitance decay per cycle within 10000 cycles at 4 A g−1. In addition, the device shows the applicability in portable electronics. This study may be extended to efficiently design ideal one-dimensional carbon materials promoting the blossom of carbon-based SCs.

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The work was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21965033, 21563029, 21805237), Opening Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals (KF1805), and the Natural Sciences Foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (2019D01C075, 2018D01C053). Also, the authors would like to thank Prof. Tao Wang and Prof. Jian min Luo from Xinjiang University Physical and Chemical Testing Center for structural characterization.

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    Xiuyan Chen, Hongyu Mi, Chenchen Ji, Chenchen Lei & Zuizui Fan

  2. State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China

    Hongyu Mi & Chang Yu

  3. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-3136, USA

    Luyi Sun

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Chen, X., Mi, H., Ji, C. et al. Hierarchically porous carbon microfibers for solid-state supercapacitors. J Mater Sci 55, 5510–5521 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-04376-1

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