Citation: Xingyuan Gao, Huilin Deng, Yuanbin Fang, Yuyan Li, Xihong Lu. Surface engineering towards high-energy carbon cathode for advanced aqueous zinc-ion hybrid capacitors[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(8): 107919. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.107919 shu

Surface engineering towards high-energy carbon cathode for advanced aqueous zinc-ion hybrid capacitors

Xingyuan Gao ^{a, b} ,
Huilin Deng ^a ,
Yuanbin Fang ^b ,
Yuyan Li ^a ,
Xihong Lu ^{b, *,}

a.
Faculty of Chemistry and Material Science, Guangdong University of Education, Engineering Technology Development Center of Advanced Materials & Energy Saving and Emission Reduction in Guangdong Colleges and Universities, Guangzhou 510303, China
b.
MOE of the Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, The Key Lab of Low-carbon Chem & Energy Conservation of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

luxh6@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Received Date: 15 September 2022
Revised Date: 8 October 2022
Accepted Date: 17 October 2022
Available Online: 19 October 2022

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Opportunities coexist with challenges for the development of carbon-based cathodes with a high energy density applied for zinc ion hybrid capacitors (ZIHCs). In the present study, a facile and effective surface engineering approach is demonstrated to greatly improve the energy storage ability of commercial carbon paper (CP) in ZIHC. Benefiting from the introduced oxygen functional groups, larger surface area and improved surface wettability upon air calcination, the assembled aqueous ZIHC with the functionalized carbon paper (FCP) exhibits a much higher areal capacity of 0.22 mAh/cm² at 1 mA/cm², outperforming the counterpart with blank CP by over 5000 times. More importantly, a superior energy density and power density of 130.8 µWh/cm² and 7460.5 µW/cm², are respectively delivered. Furthermore, more than 90% of the initial capacity is retained over 10000 cycles. This surface engineering strategy to improve the energy storage capability is potentially applicable to developing a wide range of high-energy carbon electrode materials.
- Zinc ion hybrid capacitor,
- Carbon cathode,
- Air activation,
- Pseudocapacitance,
- Surface engineering
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