State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, People's Republic of China.
Nanotechnology. 2019 Dec 6;30(49):495404. doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab3f03. Epub 2019 Aug 28.
Flexible electrode materials show many advantages and hold great prospects for energy storage application. But, the synthesis processes of these kind of materials are always complicated, are low in efficiency and high in cost. Here, we propose a facile and cost-effective two-step synthesis strategy of a flexible electrode by growing ultrathin and vertical CoNiS nanosheets on nitrogen-doped carbon foam (CoNiS NSs@NCF). The NCF is obtained by direct carbonization of the melamine foam. When evaluated as binder-free electrode material for supercapacitor in three-electrode system, the CoNiS NSs@NCF exhibits an excellent specific capacitance of 1576.8 F g and a superior cycling stability (91.5% capacitance retention at the 5000th cycle). Then, an asymmetrical supercapacitor was fabricated using the as-synthesized material as the positive electrode and activated carbon as the negative electrode, which delivers a high energy density of 42.8 Wh kg at a power density of 399.7 W kg, remarkable rate capability and satisfactory cycling stability (85.3% capacitance retention at the 5000th cycle). In brief, our work offers a low-cost and facile approach to prepare promising flexible electrode materials for high-performance supercapacitors.
柔性电极材料具有许多优点,在储能应用方面有广阔的前景。然而,这些材料的合成过程通常很复杂,效率低,成本高。在这里,我们提出了一种简便且具有成本效益的两步法合成策略,即在氮掺杂碳泡沫(CoNiS NSs@NCF)上生长超薄和垂直的 CoNiS 纳米片,制备柔性电极。NCF 是通过三聚氰胺泡沫的直接碳化得到的。在三电极体系中作为无粘结剂的超级电容器电极材料进行评估时,CoNiS NSs@NCF 表现出优异的比电容为 1576.8 F g 和出色的循环稳定性(第 5000 次循环时电容保持率为 91.5%)。然后,使用所合成的材料作为正极,活性炭作为负极,组装成非对称超级电容器,在 399.7 W kg 的功率密度下,能量密度可达 42.8 Wh kg,具有出色的倍率性能和令人满意的循环稳定性(第 5000 次循环时电容保持率为 85.3%)。总之,我们的工作为制备高性能超级电容器用的有前途的柔性电极材料提供了一种低成本、简便的方法。