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Vol. 12 (2020)

A Self-supported Graphene/Carbon Nanotube Hollow Fiber for Integrated Energy Conversion and Storage

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-0390-x
Kai Liu
Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, and Institute of Advanced Study, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, People’s Republic of China
Zilin Chen
Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, and Institute of Advanced Study, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, People’s Republic of China
Tian Lv
Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, and Institute of Advanced Study, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, People’s Republic of China
Yao Yao
Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, and Institute of Advanced Study, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, People’s Republic of China
Ning Li
Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, and Institute of Advanced Study, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, People’s Republic of China
Huili Li
Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, and Institute of Advanced Study, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, People’s Republic of China
Tao Chen
Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, and Institute of Advanced Study, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Tao Chen

tchen@tongji.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 12 (2020), Article Number: 64

Abstract

Wearable fiber-shaped integrated energy conversion and storage devices have attracted increasing attention, but it remains a big challenge to achieve a common fiber electrode for both energy conversion and storage with high performance. Here, we grow aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) array on continuous graphene (G) tube, and their seamlessly connected structure provides the obtained G/CNTs composite fiber with a unique self-supported hollow structure. Taking advantage of the hollow structure, other active materials (e.g., polyaniline, PANI) could be easily functionalized on both inner and outer surfaces of the tube, and the obtained G/CNTs/PANI composite hollow fibers achieve a high mass loading (90%) of PANI. The G/CNTs/PANI composite hollow fibers can not only be used for high-performance fiber-shaped supercapacitor with large specific capacitance of 472 mF cm−2, but also can replace platinum wire to build fiber-shaped dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) with a high power conversion efficiency of 4.20%. As desired, the integrated device of DSSC and supercapacitor with the G/CNTs/PANI composite hollow fiber used as the common electrode exhibits a total power conversion and storage efficiency as high as 2.1%. Furthermore, the self-supported G/CNTs hollow fiber could be further functionalized with other active materials for building other flexible and wearable electronics.


Highlights:


1 A novel self-supported hollow fiber with CNT array grown from graphene layer is designed and developed. The fiber provides a perfect conductive platform to deposit PANI on both inner and outer surfaces of the fiber with high mass loading.
2 With G/CNTs/PANI hollow fiber as a common electrode, an integrated energy device with a total power conversion and storage efficiency of 2.1% is realized.

Keywords

Carbon nanotube Graphene Integrated Energy conversion Energy storage
Liu, Kai, Zilin Chen, Tian Lv, Yao Yao, Ning Li, Huili Li, and Tao Chen. 2020. “A Self-Supported Graphene/Carbon Nanotube Hollow Fiber for Integrated Energy Conversion and Storage”. Nano-Micro Letters 12 (February):64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-0390-x.
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