Plasma-Assisted Three-Dimensional Lightscribe Graphene as High Performance Supercapacitors

Graphene-based supercapacitors demonstrate extraordinary energy storage capacity due to their layered structure, large effective surface area, high electrical conductivity and acceptable chemical stability. Herein, reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-based supercapacitors were introduced in a simple, green, fast and inexpensive method. For this purpose, graphene oxide (GO) was synthesized by the modified Hummers’ method and then easily reduced to desired patterns of rGO using a commercial LightScribe DVD drive. In order to increase the effective surface area, as well as the electrical conductivity of rGO layers, oxygen/sulfur hexafluoride plasma was applied to the rGO followed by laser irradiation. By performing such sequential processes, an rGO-based supercapacitor was introduced with a capacitance of about 10.2 F/cm 3 , which had high stability for more than 1000 consecutive charge-discharge cycles. The fabrication steps of the electrodes were investigated by different analyses such as SEM, TEM, Raman, surface resistance and XPS measurements. Results show that these rGO-based electrodes fabricated by sequential processes are very interesting for practical applications of energy storage.