Preparation of Porous Graphene-Based Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices

Abstract

Graphene-based nanostructures exhibit good mechanical strength, high porosity, outstanding electrical conductivity, and excellent thermal and chemical stability, which in addition to its low cost, versatile functionalization chemistry, and relative ease of large-scale preparation make it ideally suited to serve as a key component for the development of new electrode materials. Recently, a wide variety of methods have been developed for the formation of porous graphene architectures to further improve the performances. Porous graphene provides abundant pathways for rapid ion diffusion and high accessible surface area. In this chapter, the recent continued breakthroughs in the preparation of porous graphene-based nanoarchitectures as well as their applications as electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage devices are introduced.