title: High nitrogen-containing cotton derived 3D porous carbon frameworks for high-performance supercapacitors.
abstract: Supercapacitors fabricated by 3D porous carbon frameworks, such as graphene- and carbon nanotube (CNT)-based aerogels, have been highly attractive due to their various advantages. However, their high cost along with insufficient yield has inhibited their large-scale applications. Here we have demonstrated a facile and easily scalable approach for large-scale preparing novel 3D nitrogen-containing porous carbon frameworks using ultralow-cost commercial cotton. Electrochemical performance suggests that the optimal nitrogen-containing cotton-derived carbon frameworks with a high nitrogen content (12.1 mol%) along with low surface area 285 m(2) g(-1) present high specific capacities of the 308 and 200 F g(-1) in KOH electrolyte at current densities of 0.1 and 10 A g(-1), respectively, with very limited capacitance loss upon 10,000 cycles in both aqueous and gel electrolytes. Moreover, the electrode exhibits the highest capacitance up to 220 F g(-1) at 0.1 A g(-1) and excellent flexibility (with negligible capacitance loss under different bending angles) in the polyvinyl alcohol/KOH gel electrolyte. The observed excellent performance competes well with that found in the electrodes of similar 3D frameworks formed by graphene or CNTs. Therefore, the ultralow-cost and simply strategy here demonstrates great potential for scalable producing high-performance carbon-based supercapacitors in the industry.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, Institute of Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Li-Zhen
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, Institute of Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Tian-Tian
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, Institute of Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Wei-Li
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, Institute of Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xiaogang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: Shichao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang