Enhanced Supercapacitance with Porous Single-crystalline GaN Electrode
LI Hao and XIE Kui*
Chin.
J. Struct. Chem. 2021, 40, 1005-1011 DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-3093
August 15, 2021
supercapacitance, GaN single crystal, Cu–CAT nanowire arrays, single-crystalline
electrode
ABSTRACT
Capacitance
is generally determined by the porous microstructure, electron conduction and
the synergy effect of active sites in the porous electrode. In this work, we grew centimeter-scale metallic porous GaN single crystals with conductivity up to 18 S/cm
at room temperature. The Cu-catecholates (Cu–CAT)
nanowire arrays were
grown on porous GaN single crystal to form porous single-crystalline electrode
with enhanced supercapacitor performance. The Cu–CAT/GaN single crystalline electrode exhibits specific capacitance of 216 F/g and normalized capacitance of 40 µF/cm2. After 5000 cycles, it retains 80% of its initial
capacitance. The porous single-crystalline
GaN electrode has high porosity and excellent conductivity showing high
surface capacitance.