1. Hierarchically Porous NaCoPO4-Co3O4 Hollow Microspheres for Flexible Asymmetric Solid-State Supercapacitors.
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Wei, Chengzhen, Cheng, Cheng, Zhou, Binbin, Yuan, Xin, Cui, Tingting, Wang, Shanshan, Zheng, Mingbo, and Pang, Huan
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HYDROTHERMAL synthesis , *POROUS materials synthesis , *SUPERCAPACITORS , *OSTWALD ripening , *ELECTRIC capacity - Abstract
A template-free hydrothermal method is developed to prepare hierarchical hollow precursors. An inside-out Ostwald ripening mechanism is proposed to explain the formation of the hollow structure. After the calcination in the air, hierarchically meso/macroporous NaCoPO4-Co3O4 hollow microspheres can easily be obtained. When being evaluated as electrode materials for a supercapacitor, the hierarchically porous NaCoPO4-Co3O4 hollow microspheres electrode shows a specific capacitance of 268 F g−1 at 0.8 A g−1 and offers a good cycle life. More importantly, the obtained materials are successfully applied to fabricate flexible solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors. The device exhibits a specific capacitance of 28.6 mF cm−2 at 0.1 mA cm−2, a good cycling stability with only 5.5% loss of capacitance after 5000 cycles, and good mechanical flexibility under different bending angles, which confirms that the hierarchically porous NaCoPO4-Co3O4 hollow microspheres are promising active materials for the flexible supercapacitor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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