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Vol. 12 (2020)

Drying-Mediated Self-Assembly of Graphene for Inkjet Printing of High-Rate Micro-supercapacitors

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-0368-8
Szymon Sollami Delekta
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Electrum 229, 16440 Kista, Sweden
Mika‑Matti Laurila
Laboratory for Future Electronics, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, 33720 Tampere, Finland
Matti Mäntysalo
Laboratory for Future Electronics, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, 33720 Tampere, Finland
Jiantong Li
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Electrum 229, 16440 Kista, Sweden

Corresponding Author: Jiantong Li

jiantong@kth.se

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 12 (2020), Article Number: 40

Abstract

Scalable fabrication of high-rate micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) is highly desired for on-chip integration of energy storage components. By virtue of the special self-assembly behavior of 2D materials during drying thin films of their liquid dispersion, a new inkjet printing technique of passivated graphene micro-flakes is developed to directly print MSCs with 3D networked porous microstructure. The presence of macroscale through-thickness pores provides fast ion transport pathways and improves the rate capability of the devices even with solid-state electrolytes. During multiple-pass printing, the porous microstructure effectively absorbs the successively printed inks, allowing full printing of 3D structured MSCs comprising multiple vertically stacked cycles of current collectors, electrodes, and sold-state electrolytes. The all-solid-state heterogeneous 3D MSCs exhibit excellent vertical scalability and high areal energy density and power density, evidently outperforming the MSCs fabricated through general printing techniques.


Highlights:


1 Based on the drying-mediated self-assembly behavior of passivated graphene, a new kind of 2D micro-flake inks is developed to directly print high-resolution patterns with multiscale porous microstructure.
2 The new ink allows to directly print complex 3D structures comprising multiple layers of heterogeneous materials.
3 High-rate all-solid-state 3D micro-supercapacitors have been fully inkjet-printed with an areal capacitance surpassing 10 mF cm−2 at a high scan rate of 1 V s−1.

Keywords

High-rate micro-supercapacitor 3D micro-supercapacitor Drying-mediated self-assembly Graphene Inkjet printing
Delekta, Szymon Sollami, Mika‑Matti Laurila, Matti Mäntysalo, and Jiantong Li. 2020. “Drying-Mediated Self-Assembly of Graphene for Inkjet Printing of High-Rate Micro-Supercapacitors”. Nano-Micro Letters 12 (January):40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-0368-8.
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