Bioinspired strengthening and toughening carbon nanotube@polyaniline/graphene film using electroactive biomass as glue for high rate, volumetric capacitance and low-temperature tolerance flexible supercapacitor

Author(s):  
Dan Wu ◽  
Chuying Yu ◽  
Wenbin Zhong

Natural nacre built up with brick-and-mortar architecture, exhibiting extraordinary strength and toughness, provides an inspiration to construct high-performance multifunctional film for flexible energy storage and portable electrical devices. In the...

HortScience ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 826-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.S. Ebdon ◽  
R.A. Gagne ◽  
R.C. Manley

Turf loss from freezing injury results in costly reestablishment, especially with turfgrasses such as perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) having poor low-temperature tolerance. However, no studies have been conducted to investigate the relative importance of low-temperature tolerance and its contribution to turfgrass quality (performance) in northern climates. The objective of this research was to compare critical freezing thresholds (LT50) of 10 perennial ryegrass cultivars representing contrasting turf-quality types (five high- and five low-performance cultivars). Cultivar selection was based on turfgrass quality ranking (top and bottom five) from the 1997 National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (NTEP) trial conducted at the Maine (Orono) location. Ten freeze-stress temperatures (-3 to -21 °C) and a nonfrozen control (5 °C) were applied to 5-month-old plants. Acclimated (AC) plant material maintained in an unheated polyhouse during the fall and winter in Massachusetts was compared to nonacclimated (NA) plant material (grown at 18 °C minimum in a greenhouse). Low-temperature tolerance was assessed using whole-plant survival and electrolyte leakage (EL). Estimates of LT50 were derived from fitted EL and survival curves using nonlinear regression. High-performance cultivars were able to tolerate significantly lower freeze-stress temperatures indicated by less EL and greater survival compared to low-performance cultivars. The EL method had good predictive capability for low-temperature survival. Acclimated tissues and high-performance cultivars had significantly flatter EL curves and lower mortality rates. These results underscore the importance of selecting cold-tolerant perennial ryegrass genotypes for adaptation to northern climates.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (31) ◽  
pp. 12340-12347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haosen Fan ◽  
Ning Zhao ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Jian Xu ◽  
Feng Pan

A facile method was successfully established to construct 3D conductive network-based free-standing polyaniline/reduced graphene oxide/carbon nanotube ternary hybrid film, in which a 3D conductive network was synergistically assembled by MWNTs and GO.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (22) ◽  
pp. 11271-11277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinsong Li ◽  
Weibang Lu ◽  
Yushan Yan ◽  
Tsu-Wei Chou

A novel flexible nanoarchitecture was fabricated via the facile electropolymerization of a polyaniline (PANI) network on Fe3O4 particles grown axially on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) of a CNT film for supercapacitor electrode applications.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1498-1503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan Fang ◽  
Laifa Shen ◽  
Hao Zheng ◽  
Xiaogang Zhang

A Ge–graphene–carbon nanotube composite electrode has been successfully synthesized and evaluated. The composite exhibits high rate capability and cycle stability, which is ascribed to the graphene sheet that improves electric conductivity and the CNT mechanically binds together with Ge–RGO to maintain the integrity of the electrodes and stabilize the electric conductive network for the active Ge nanoparticles.


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