High-Performance Supercapacitor Electrodes Based on Porosity-Controllable Carbon Paper by Centrifugal Spinning

Abstract

Carbon paper is widely utilized in supercapacitors primarily for its notable attributes, including high specific surface area, commendable electrical conductivity, and excellent chemical stability. Then investigate the effect of carbon paper with different porosities as supercapacitor substrates on the electrochemical performance of electrodes. Meanwhile, tungsten oxide is grown on the surface of carbon paper using the hydrothermal method to test the electrochemical performance of the composite electrode. The prepared carbon paper and oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide (WOx) composite electrode (CP@WOx) exhibit an area-specific capacitance of 915.8 mF/cm² at a current density of 5 mA/cm². In addition, the electrode exhibits good cycling stability. After 20,000 cycles, the capacitance remains 104.1 % of the original capacity at 50 mA/cm² current density. Solid-state symmetric supercapacitors assembled using CP@WOx electrode exhibit excellent performance in terms of surface energy density of 6.25 μWh/cm² (at a power density of 0.6 mW/cm²) and maintain 100.4 % of their original capacity after 7000 charge/discharge cycles. Relying on the higher productivity advantage of centrifugal spinning technology over electrostatic spinning technology and other preparation processes, this study develops a new way of thinking for the large-scale production of composite electrode materials, which has more considerable potential for large-scale development.