Creation of fibers with high conductance and capacitance properties

Abstract

Cotton fabric is as a template to create conducting fibers and fabrics. The cotton fabric was dipped into a suspension created from defoliated graphite and suspension agents. The coated cotton textile was then annealed at a high temperature in a quartz tube furnace under argon flow. During the annealing process, the gaps between sheets separated from the graphite were linked together in such a way that conductivity was created. The underlying material was pyrolytic carbon. On the surface, in several cases, a graphene-coated pyrolytic carbon material was formed. The result was a “skin” created on the pyrolytic carbon scaffold that is flexible and contributes relatively high capacity to a lithium battery test cell. This occurs because of porous structure of the sheets created on the surface and the high surface area of the pyrolyzed carbon with a shell-core structure.