title: Porous 3D graphene-based bulk materials with exceptional high surface area and excellent conductivity for supercapacitors.
abstract: Until now, few sp(2) carbon materials simultaneously exhibit superior performance for specific surface area (SSA) and electrical conductivity at bulk state. Thus, it is extremely important to make such materials at bulk scale with those two outstanding properties combined together. Here, we present a simple and green but very efficient approach using two standard and simple industry steps to make such three-dimensional graphene-based porous materials at the bulk scale, with ultrahigh SSA (3523 m(2)/g) and excellent bulk conductivity. We conclude that these materials consist of mainly defected/wrinkled single layer graphene sheets in the dimensional size of a few nanometers, with at least some covalent bond between each other. The outstanding properties of these materials are demonstrated by their superior supercapacitor performance in ionic liquid with specific capacitance and energy density of 231 F/g and 98 Wh/kg, respectively, so far the best reported capacitance performance for all bulk carbon materials.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Functional Polymer Materials and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Guankui
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Yingpeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Tengfei
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Leng
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Yanfeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Ao
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Yongsheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004566:Electrodes; D006108:Graphite / Q000737:chemistry*; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry; D016062:Porosity; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D006108:Graphite