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Polyaniline-modified graphitic carbon nitride as electrode materials for high-performance supercapacitors

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Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has attracted extensive attention in energy storage due to its suitable and tunable bandgap, high chemical/thermal stability, earth abundance and environmental friendliness. However, its conductivity should be improved to work as the electrode materials in supercapacitors. In this report, we have prepared a two-dimensional composite (CN-PANI) based on g-C3N4 and polyaniline (PANI) by in-situ polymerization, which can be efficiently applied as electrode material for supercapacitors. The introduction of PANI can increase the conductivity of the electrode, and the porous structure of g-C3N4 can provide enough channels for the transport of electrolyte ions and improve the electrode stability. As a result, the obtained CN-PANI demonstrates excellent specific capacitance (234.0 F g−1 at 5 mV/s), good rate performance and high cycling stability (86.2% after 10,000 cycles at 50 mV/s), showing great potential for high-rate supercapacitors.

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Acknowledgements

This project was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52173183, 61974045), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2021CFB598), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2019A1515012092), and the opening project of Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education (Jianghan University) (JDGD-202207).

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    Xin Qin, Jianbo Wan, Qi Zhang, Yongjie Zhang & Shengwei Shi

  2. School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China

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  3. Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Jianghan University, Wuhan, 430056, China

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Qin, X., Wan, J., Zhang, Q. et al. Polyaniline-modified graphitic carbon nitride as electrode materials for high-performance supercapacitors. Carbon Lett. 33, 781–790 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-022-00459-y

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