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JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/24/4/045001
Keywords
micro/nano dual-scale carbon array; oxygen plasma treatment; pyrolysis; supercapacitive electrode
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- National Science Foundation of China [51275195, 91323106]
- National Instrument Development Specific Project of China [2011YQ16000204]
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An easily accessible method is proposed for the fabrication of a 3D micro/nano dual-scale carbon array with a large surface area. The process mainly consists of three critical steps. Firstly, a hemispherical photoresist micro-array was obtained by the cost-effective nanoimprint lithography process. Then the micro-array was transformed into hierarchical structures with longitudinal nanowires on the microstructure surface by oxygen plasma etching. Finally, the micro/nano dual-scale carbon array was fabricated by carbonizing these hierarchical photoresist structures. It has also been demonstrated that the micro/nano dual-scale carbon array can be used as the microelectrodes for supercapacitors by the electrodeposition of a manganese dioxide (MnO2) film onto the hierarchical carbon structures with greatly enhanced electrochemical performance. The specific gravimetric capacitance of the deposited micro/nano dual-scale microelectrodes is estimated to be 337 F g(-1) at the scan rate of 5 mV s(-1). This proposed approach of fabricating a micro/nano dual-scale carbon array provides a facile way in large-scale microstructures' manufacturing for a wide variety of applications, including sensors and on-chip energy storage devices.
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