title: Crosslinked Carbon Nanotubes/Polyaniline Composites as a Pseudocapacitive Material with High Cycling Stability.
abstract: The poor cycling stability of polyaniline (PANI) limits its practical application as a pseudocapacitive material due to the volume change during the charge-discharge procedure. Herein, crosslinked carbon nanotubes/polyaniline (C-CNTs/PANI) composites had been designed by thein situchemical oxidative polymerization of aniline in the presence of crosslinked carbon nanotubes (C-CNTs), which were obtained by coupling of the functionalized carbon nanotubes with 1,4-benzoquinone. The composite showed a specific capacitance of 294 F/g at the scan rate of 10 mV/s, and could retain 95% of its initial specific capacitance after 1000 CV cycles. Such high electrochemical cycling stability resulting from the crosslinked skeleton of the C-CNTs makes them potential electrode materials for a supercapacitor.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. liud13@lzu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. wangx2012@lzu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xue
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. dengjx12@lzu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jinxing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. zhoucl11@lzu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Chenglong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. gjs@lzu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jinshan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. pliu@lzu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
keywords: crosslinked carbon nanotubes (C-CNTs); cycling stability; electrochemical energy storage; nanocomposite; polyaniline (PANI)