Doping cobalt hydroxide nanowires for better supercapacitor performance

Cobalt hydroxide nanowires were synthesized on Ni foam by a one-pot hydrothermal process. The specific capacitance of pure cobalt hydroxide nanowires can reach 1600Fg-1 at a current density of 1Ag-1. By suitably doping the redox-active element Mn into cobalt hydroxide nanowires, the specific capacit...

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Published in:Acta materialia 2015-02, Vol.84, p.20-28
Main Authors: Liu, Huajun, Ho, Kuan Hung, Hu, Yating, Ke, Qingqing, Mao, Lu, Zhang, Yu, Wang, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capacitance
Capacitors
Cobalt
Doping
Hydroxides
Nanowires
Strontium
Supercapacitors
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Summary:Cobalt hydroxide nanowires were synthesized on Ni foam by a one-pot hydrothermal process. The specific capacitance of pure cobalt hydroxide nanowires can reach 1600Fg-1 at a current density of 1Ag-1. By suitably doping the redox-active element Mn into cobalt hydroxide nanowires, the specific capacitance is improved to 2800Fg-1 at 1Ag-1. Doping with the redox-inactive elements La and Sr gives specific capacitances per cobalt mass of 245, 2200 and 3200Fg-1 at 1Ag-1 for La-doped, Sr-doped and La-Sr-doped cobalt hydroxides, respectively. The effect of doping is clarified in terms of the modifications caused to the morphology, oxidation state of cobalt, electronic conductivity and additional redox reactions of cobalt hydroxide. Our work shows that chemical doping is an effective and simple route to improve the supercapacitor performance of transition metal hydroxides.
ISSN:1359-6454
DOI:10.1016/j.actamat.2014.09.055