CuCo2O4 nanoneedle array with high stability for high performance asymmetric supercapacitors |
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| Authors: | Ling Zhang Ruizhi Li Weiqun Li Rongcong Li Chenliang Li Yingke Zhou |
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| Affiliation: | The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Institute of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, College of Materials and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081 P. R. China.; Chongqing Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials & Technologies of Clean Energies, Chongqing 400715 P. R. China |
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| Abstract: | Cycling performance is very important to device application. Herein, a facile and controllable approach is proposed to synthesize high stability CuCo2O4 nanoneedle array on a conductive substrate. The electrode presents excellent performances in a large specific capacitance up to 2.62 F cm−2 (1747 F g−1) at 1 mV s−1 and remarkable electrochemical stability, retaining 164% even over 70 000 cycles. In addition, the asymmetric supercapacitor assembled with the optimized CuCo2O4 nanoneedle array (cathode) and active carbon (anode), which exhibits superior specific capacity (146 F g−1), energy density (57 W h kg−1), and cycling stability (retention of 83.9% after 10 000 cycles). These outstanding performances are mainly ascribed to the ordered binder-free nanoneedle array architecture and holds great potential for the new-generation energy storage devices.The CuCo2O4 nanoneedle array with enhanced electrochemical performance especially high stability is due to the hierarchical porosity framework with the high mesoporous nanoneedle array. |
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