Three-Dimensional Printing of Polyaniline/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composite for High-Performance Planar Supercapacitor

Zishen Wang; Qin E Zhang; Shichuan Long; Yangxi Luo; Peikai Yu; Zhibing Tan; Jie Bai; Baihua Qu; Yang Yang; Jia Shi; Hua Zhou; Zong-Yuan Xiao; Wenjing Hong; Hua Bai

doi:10.1021/acsami.7b19635

Three-Dimensional Printing of Polyaniline/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composite for High-Performance Planar Supercapacitor

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2018 Mar 28;10(12):10437-10444. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b19635. Epub 2018 Mar 19.

Authors

Zishen Wang^{1

2

3}, Qin E Zhang^{1

3}, Shichuan Long^{1

3}, Yangxi Luo^{1

3}, Peikai Yu^{1

3}, Zhibing Tan^{1

3}, Jie Bai^{1

3}, Baihua Qu¹, Yang Yang¹, Jia Shi¹, Hua Zhou^{1

2}, Zong-Yuan Xiao^{1

3}, Wenjing Hong^{1

2

3}, Hua Bai^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid States, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, College of Materials , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China.
² National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols-Ethers-Esters , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China.
³ Graphene Industry and Engineering Research Institute , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China.

PMID: 29543426
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b19635

Abstract

We apply direct ink writing for the three-dimensional (3D) printing of polyaniline/reduced graphene oxide (PANI/RGO) composites with PANI/graphene oxide (PANI/GO) gel as printable inks. The PANI/GO gel inks for 3D printing are prepared via self-assembly of PANI and GO in a blend solvent of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone and water, and offer both shaping capability, self-sustainability, and electrical conductivity after reduction of GO. PANI/RGO interdigital electrodes are fabricated with 3D printing, and based on these electrodes, a planar solid-state supercapacitor is constructed, which exhibits high performance with an areal specific capacitance of 1329 mF cm^-2. The approach developed in this work provides a simple, economic, and effective way to fabricate PANI-based 3D architectures, which leads to promising application in future energy and electric devices at micro-nano scale.

Keywords: conducting polymer; direct ink writing; gel; graphene; interdigital electrode.