Journal of Materials Science, Vol.54, No.5, 4180-4191, 2019
One-pot facile route to fabricate the precursor of sulfonated graphene/N-doped mesoporous carbons composites for supercapacitors
A facile one-pot aqueous route is firstly proposed to fabricate the precursor of sulfonated graphene/N-doped mesoporous carbons composite (SG/NMC). SG/NMC for supercapacitor applications is subsequently obtained by thermal pyrolysis of this precursor. The obtained SG/NMC possesses the ordered mesostructures with both lattice unit parameter about 14.3nm and much wider distributions of pore sizes, as well as delivers a specific surface area high up to 1039.65m(2)g(-1). Likewise, SG/NMC exhibits a high specific capacitance about 304.2Fg(-1) at 1.0Ag(-1), which is much higher than ordered mesoporous carbons (OMC, 128.9Fg(-1)) and N-doped mesoporous carbons (NMC, 223.3Fg(-1)). Moreover, the resultant carbon displays a capacitance of 209.2Fg(-1) at a current density even up to 50Ag(-1) and the capacity can be retained above 93% after 5000 cycles at 10Ag(-1). The strategy demonstrated here is therefore expected to open up new routes to fabricate graphene and mesoporous carbons composites in aqueous solutions for supercapacitor applications.