Free-standing monolithic nanoporous graphene foam as a high performance aluminum-ion battery cathode

  • Xiaodan Huang
  • , Yang Liu
  • , Hongwei Zhang
  • , Jun Zhang
  • , Owen Noonan
  • , Chengzhong Yu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Aluminum-ion batteries (AIBs) are emerging as an attractive new electrical energy storage system. Despite the recent breakthroughs in AIB technology, state-of-the-art cathode materials suffer from mediocre volumetric capacity (∼0.74 mA h cm-3) and AIBs in the widely used coin-cell configuration are rarely reported. Here, we present the synthesis of free-standing monolithic nanoporous graphene foam with a high density and a new strategy to stabilize coin-cell type AIBs. Our designed coin-cell AIBs demonstrate a volumetric capacity up to 12.2 mA h cm-3, a gravimetric capacity of 151 mA h g-1 and good low temperature performance.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19416-19421
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume5
Issue number36
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes

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