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    Flexible Binder-Free CuS/Polydopamine-Coated Carbon Cloth for High Voltage Supercapacitors

    Year: 2018

    Journal: Energy Technol., Volume 6, SEP, page 1852–1858

    Authors: Yang, MinHo; Choi, Jaewon; Kim, Sung-Kon; Braun, Paul V.

    Organizations: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST); National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro Thermal Systems (POETS) [EEC-1449548]; research funds for newly appointed professors of Chonbuk National University in 2017

    Keywords: Carbon cloth; Copper sulfide; Interfacial engineering; Polydopamine; Supercapacitor

    Interfacial engineering is important to achieve high electrochemical performance in energy storage devices. It becomes particularly important for flexible devices, where stresses at the interface between the active material and current collector can be significant upon flexing. Here, we describe simple yet powerful method to tune surface properties, such as wettability and adhesion of carbon cloth (CC) as current collectors to active materials via using dopamine chemistry. We show how a polydopamine-coated CC (p-CC) exhibits strong adhesion with CuS nanosheets, enabling negligible capacitance fading after over 100 folding cycles. The CuS/p-CC system exhibits attractive electrochemical properties, including a high specific capacitance (337 Fg(-1) at 0.5 Ag-1), good rate capability (81.9% capacitance retention at a rate of 10 Ag-1), and excellent capacitance retention (about 96.1% after 1000 cycles). An asymmetric supercapacitor fabricated by assembly of RGO/p-CC and CuS/p-CC provides a stable cell voltage up to 1.5 V and energy and power densities of up to 48.3 Wh kg(-1) and 6919 W kg(-1) on a full electrode basis.
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