Issue 13, 2016

Flexible and wearable fiber shaped high voltage supercapacitors based on copper hexacyanoferrate and porous carbon coated carbon fiber electrodes

Abstract

In this work, we report the fabrication of a new high voltage hybrid fiber supercapacitor (HFSC) with porous carbon coated carbon fibers (PC@CFs) as the negative electrode and copper hexacyanoferrate coated carbon fibers (CuHCF@CFs) as the positive electrode. Carbon fibers (CFs) were used as both the substrate and the current collector due to their good conductivity, high flexibility, good mechanical strength, and light weight. The as-fabricated HFSC can be cycled reversibly in the range of 0–2 V and exhibits excellent electrochemical performance with a specific capacitance of 19.2 F g−1 (68.2 mF cm−2 or 3.1 F cm−3) and an energy density of 10.6 W h kg−1 (180.85 μW h cm−2 or 8.11 mW h cm−3), better than those reported in the previous literature. Additionally, the HFSCs have retained their original electrochemical performance even after bending, suggesting good flexibility of the device. The promising results show great potential in developing HFSCs with CuHCF@CFs and PC@CFs electrodes for practical wearable devices.

Graphical abstract: Flexible and wearable fiber shaped high voltage supercapacitors based on copper hexacyanoferrate and porous carbon coated carbon fiber electrodes

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Jan 2016
Accepted
27 Feb 2016
First published
14 Mar 2016

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016,4, 4934-4940

Flexible and wearable fiber shaped high voltage supercapacitors based on copper hexacyanoferrate and porous carbon coated carbon fiber electrodes

S. T. Senthilkumar, J. Kim, Y. Wang, H. Huang and Y. Kim, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 4934 DOI: 10.1039/C6TA00093B

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