Assembly and Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications of Graphene-Based Materials

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Graphene has attracted extensive attentions due to its unique structure, excellent properties and great potential in various applications. However, due to the strong interaction among the two-dimensional sheets, the unavoidable aggregation of graphene results in low surface utilization, and thus, unsatisfied performance in practical applications. Graphene can be viewed as basic unit of carbon materials, and the surface utilization of graphene can be improved by assembling it into various graphene-based structures with ordered sheet arrangement, which is important to its practical applications in future. In this paper, we summary the different graphene-based assemblies and the corresponding methods reported in these years, and more importantly, the relations between the assembly structures and their usage in electrochemical energy storage applications are highlighted.

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	Shi Huifa
	Li Zhengjie
	Lv Wei

Keywords： graphene； assembly； electrochemical energy storage application

Received 2015-07-01;

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Shi Huifa, Li Zhengjie, Lv Wei.Assembly and Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications of Graphene-Based Materials[J] Chemcial Industry and Engineering, 2015,V32(5): 62-70

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