Summary
In this study, we followed a facile method to grow well‐aligned PANI nanostructures on S‐doped reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (SPANI/S‐rGO) using hydrothermal method combined with soft template polymerization of aniline where naphthalene sulfonic acid is used as a dopant for PANI as well as the soft template. The effect of using different wt% of S‐rGO on the structural, morphology, and electrochemical performance of SPANI/S‐rGO composites has been evaluated. Supercapacitor fabricated using SPANI/S‐rGO10 (10 wt% of S‐rGO) composite based electrodes delivered a high specific capacitance of 347.5 F/g at a current density of 1 A/g in symmetrical cell design (the specific capacitance was calculated based on a single electrode). Only 11% of its initial capacitance is lost after 2500 cycles at a current density of 2 A/g. The enhanced performance is attributed to the optimum loading of S‐rGO in designing binary composite, well‐aligned growth of SPANI nanostructures on S‐rGO sheets, and synergistic effect of both S‐rGO and SPANI. The facile synthesized SPANI/S‐rGO composite electrode material with the aforementioned features is considered to be a promising candidate for a high‐performance supercapacitor.