Enhancement of electrochemical performance of nickel cobalt layered double hydroxide@nickel foam with potassium ferricyanide auxiliary electrolyte

Charmaine Lamiel, Van Hoa Nguyen, Iftikhar Hussain and Jae-Jin Shim

Energy, 2017, vol. 140, issue P1, 901-911

Abstract: Metal oxide nanostructures have been studied widely to overcome the limitations in the capacitance of the carbon-based supercapacitor electrode materials. An electrode with a very porous 3D structure is preferred to facilitate the mass transfer of large electrolyte ions. In this study, highly nanostructured, binder-free Ni-Co-based pseudocapacitive electrodes were synthesized directly on porous 3D structured nickel foam (NF) current collectors using low-power microwave irradiation. The electrochemical performance of the Ni-Co layered double hydroxide (Ni-Co-LDH) showed better performance than Ni-Co oxide (Ni-Co-O) with the further addition of redox additive/active electrolytes, such as K3Fe(CN)6. The specific capacitances of 4664 F g−1 for Ni-Co-LDH and 1758 F g−1 for Ni-Co-O at 5 mA cm−2 in the KOH/K3Fe(CN)6 electrolyte were improved greatly compared to the values of their corresponding materials in the conventional KOH electrolyte (2875 and 250 F g−1, respectively). Interestingly, the Ni-Co-LDH//AC asymmetric device exhibited a specific capacitance of 108.9 F g−1 and an energy density of 38.7 Wh kg−1 with a stability of 61.9% after 5000 cycles. The facile yet cost-effective synthesis of nanostructured electrodes provides a versatile approach for the design of high-performance pseudocapacitive electrodes for future energy-storage systems.

Keywords: Potassium ferricyanide; Layered double hydroxide; Microwave; Nickel cobalt hydroxide; Pseudocapacitor; Auxiliary electrolyte (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.09.035

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