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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Three-dimensional tubular arrays of MnO2–NiO nanoflakes with high areal pseudocapacitance

Jinping Liu,ab   Jian Jiang,b   Michel Bosmanc  and  Hong Jin Fan*ad  

* Corresponding authors

a Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore
E-mail: fanhj@ntu.edu.sg

b Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Department of Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, P. R. China

c Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 3 Research Link, Singapore

d Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N), Singapore

Abstract

Transition metal oxide nanostructures are current research focus for energy storage applications. We herein report the synthesis of MnO2–NiO nanoflake-assembled tubular array on stainless steel substrate to function as pseudocapacitor electrode by programmed three-dimensional (3D) interfacial reactions, in which the ZnO nanowire array is employed as the low-cost in situ sacrificial template. In this 3D nanoelectrode, MnO2 and NiO nanoflakes share the same “root” and form an integrated hierarchical structure, which adheres robustly to the substrate. Importantly, both MnO2 and NiO contribute to the charge storage. The highly porous structure, which allows easy penetration of the electrolyte, gives additional merits. Detailed electrochemical characterization reveals that the assembled MnO2–NiO array exhibits good rate performance and cycle life. In particular, it displays an areal capacitance that is four orders of magnitude higher than that of carbonaceous materials and significantly superior to those of previous directly-grown pseudocapacitive nanostructure films.

Graphical abstract: Three-dimensional tubular arrays of MnO2–NiO nanoflakes with high areal pseudocapacitance

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1JM14804D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Sep 2011
Accepted
07 Nov 2011
First published
13 Dec 2011

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 2419-2426

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Three-dimensional tubular arrays of MnO2–NiO nanoflakes with high areal pseudocapacitance

J. Liu, J. Jiang, M. Bosman and H. J. Fan, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 2419 DOI: 10.1039/C1JM14804D

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