Fabrication of cellulose/graphene paper as a stable-cycling anode materials without collector

Chunliang Zhang; Ruitao Cha; Luming Yang; Kaiwen Mou; Xingyu Jiang

doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.12.046

Fabrication of cellulose/graphene paper as a stable-cycling anode materials without collector

Carbohydr Polym. 2018 Mar 15:184:30-36. doi: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.12.046. Epub 2017 Dec 20.

Authors

Chunliang Zhang¹, Ruitao Cha², Luming Yang³, Kaiwen Mou³, Xingyu Jiang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Engineering Research Center for BioNanotechnology, CAS Key Lab. for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for NanoScience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China; Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science & Technology, College of Materials Science & Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China.
² Beijing Engineering Research Center for BioNanotechnology, CAS Key Lab. for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for NanoScience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China. Electronic address: chart@nanoctr.cn.
³ Beijing Engineering Research Center for BioNanotechnology, CAS Key Lab. for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for NanoScience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.
⁴ Beijing Engineering Research Center for BioNanotechnology, CAS Key Lab. for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for NanoScience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China; The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China. Electronic address: xingyujiang@nanoctr.cn.

PMID: 29352923
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.12.046

Abstract

Flexible and foldable devices attract substantial attention in low-cost electronics. Among the flexible substrate materials, paper has several attractive advantages. In our study, we fabricate cellulose/graphene paper by wet end formation (papermaking). The cationic polyacrylamide remarkably improve the retention ratio of graphene of cellulose/graphene slurry. Besides, cellulose/graphene paper exhibits well mechanical properties such as its flexibility and folding endurance. And we replace copper foil collector with cellulose/graphene paper in lithium-ion batteries without collector, and investigate its electrochemical properties. The obtained results show that cellulose/graphene paper presents excellent charge-discharge stability after 1600th cycles as the anode of lithium-ion batteries. These advantages highlight the potential applications of cellulose/graphene paper as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

Keywords: Cellulose; Conductive paper; Flexibility anode; Lithium-ion batteries; Wet end formation.