All Si 3 N 4 Nanowires Membrane Based High-Performance Flexible Solid-State Asymmetric Supercapacitor

• Published in: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Vol. 17; no. 18; p. e2008056
• Main Authors: Yin, Xuemin, Li, Hejun, Han, Liyuan, Meng, Jiachen, Lu, Jinhua, Song, Qiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany 01.05.2021
• Subjects: NiCo 2O 4 hollow nanospheres; FeOOH nanorods; flexible asymmetric supercapacitor; vertical graphene nanosheets; Si 3N 4 nanowires membrane
• ISSN: 1613-6810; 1613-6829
• DOI: 10.1002/smll.202008056

Recently, much attention has been drawn in the development of flexible energy storage devices due to the increasing demands for flexible/portable electronic devices with high energy density, low weight, and good flexibility. Herein, vertically oriented graphene nanosheets (VGNs) are in situ fabricated on the surface of free-standing and flexible Si N nanowires (NWs) membrane by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), which are directly used as flexible nanoscale conductive substrates. NiCo O hollow nanospheres (HSs) and FeOOH amorphous nanorods (NRs) are finally prepared on Si N @VGNs, which are served as the positive and negative electrodes, respectively. Profiting from the structural merits, the synthesized Si N @VGNs@NiCo O and Si N @VGNs@FeOOH membrane electrodes exhibit remarkable electrochemical performance. Using Si N membrane as the separator, the assembled all Si N membrane-based flexible solid-state asymmetric supercapacitor (ASC) with a wide operating potential window of 1.8 V yields the outstanding energy density of 96.3 Wh kg , excellent cycling performance (91.7% after 6000 cycles), and good mechanical flexibility. More importantly, this work provides a rational design strategy for the preparation of flexible electrode materials and broadens the applications of Si N in the field of energy storage.