Balanced mesoporous nickle cobaltite-graphene and doped carbon electrodes for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitor

•Rod-like NiCo2O4 decorated on graphene has been prepared by a hydrothermal route.•Balanced positive and negative electrodes were used to assemble high energy capacitor.•The work provides a potential way for designing superior energy storage device.

Mesoporous rod-like nickel cobaltite decorated on graphene has been fabricated by a facile hydrothermal method. Due to multiple redox reactions on nickel cobaltite, a high capacitance of 845 F g−1 can be obtained. In order to get high energy and power densities, an asymmetric supercapacitor has been assembled by using mesoporous nickel cobaltite-graphene nanocomposite as the positive electrode and doped carbon as the negative electrode. Benefitting from the balanced capacity on positive and negative electrode, the fabricated asymmetric supercapacitor exhibit a remarkable energy density of 52.2 Wh kg−1 and excellent cycling life with 97.3% capacitance retention ratio after 10,000 cycles. The outstanding electrochemical performance can be attributed to the synergetic contribution of these two electrodes, which gives a promising way for designing high performance energy storage device.

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