This review summarizes the latest advances in on-chip graphene-based planar interdigital micro-supercapacitors, from the history of their development, representative graphene-based materials (graphene sheets, graphene quantum dots and graphene hybrids) for their manufacture, typical microfabrication strategies (photolithography techniques, electrochemical methods, laser writing, etc. ), electrolyte (aqueous, organic, ionic and gel), to device configuration (symmetric and asymmetric).
What is a graphene based supercapacitor?
In addition, graphene based supercapacitors will utilize its lightweight nature, elastic properties and mechanical strength. A Graphene supercapacitor is said to store almost as much energy as alithium-ion battery, charge and discharge in seconds and maintain all this over tens of thousands of charging cycles.
Do graphene-based supercapacitors have a lower capacitance than activated carbon?
A similar but more limited study in 2020 compared graphene and activated carbon to show that the specific capacitance of graphene-based supercapacitors was markedly lower than that of activated carbon, likely due to the presence of graphene oxide.
Can arbitrary-shaped graphene-based planar sandwich supercapacitors be printed?
Here, we demonstrate a versatile printable technology to fabricate arbitrary-shaped, printable graphene-based planar sandwich supercapacitors based on the layer-structured film of electrochemically exfoliated graphene as two electrodes and nanosized graphene oxide (lateral size of 100 nm) as a separator on one substrate.
Graphene-based supercapacitors are more expensive. Because graphene-based supercapacitors are a newer technology, their production has not yet reached economies of scale. Furthermore, due to more stringent quality requirements, graphene continues to be more expensive to produce than activated carbon.
Are graphene-based in-plane interdigital micro-supercapacitors a novel class?
Herein we developed a novel class of all solid-state graphene-based in-plane interdigital micro-supercapacitors on both rigid and flexible substrates through micropatterning of graphene films with a nanoscale thickness of 6–100 nm.
Since Stoller described the first graphene supercapacitor in 2008, significant developments have been made during this last decade in the development of new graphene-based electrodes.