Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6604825 | Electrochimica Acta | 2018 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
A three dimensional hierarchical composite electrode composed of nickel nanowires@nickel-cobalt double hydroxide aligned on nickel foam is successfully fabricated by an in-situ growth route. In this composite electrode, the nickel nanowires are used as core materials to support high-pseudocapacitance nickel-cobalt double hydroxide and construct the typical Ni nanowires core@Ni-Co double hydroxide shell hierarchical structure on Ni foam. Compared with Ni-Co double hydroxide/Ni foam electrode (without nickel nanowires), the electrochemical performance of the obtained composite electrode is apparently improved, which shows a high areal specific capacitance (2.25Â FÂ cmâ2 at 5Â mAÂ cmâ2), excellent rate capability (1.65Â FÂ cmâ2 at 100Â mAÂ cmâ2) and superior cycle stability (151.2% retained in the 20000th cycle). And the activation mechanism of ultra-long cycle life of the obtained composite electrode is studied in this work, which indicates that the transforms of surface atoms on Ni nanowires into high-pseudocapacitance Ni(OH)2 and NiOOH during cycles make major contributions for the performance improvement.
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Authors
Lang Li, Xiang Liu, Chang Liu, Houzhao Wan, Jun Zhang, Pei Liang, Hanbin Wang, Hao Wang,