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Boosting pseudocapacitive energy storage performance via both phosphorus vacancy defect and charge injection technique over the CoP electrode

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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 864, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.158106

Keywords

Cobalt phosphide; Vacancy defect; Electrode potential blend; Supercapacitor

Funding

  1. Teachers' Development and Scientific Research Staring Foundation of Chengdu University of Technology
  2. Science and Technology Planning Project of Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province [2020YJ0163]

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Introducing proper phosphorus vacancy defects into electrode materials can significantly improve electrochemical performance. In this study, lattice-like CoP grown on nickel foam with appropriate concentration of vacancies demonstrated improved specific capacitance and excellent retention rate stability after 5000 cycles. The asymmetric supercapacitor showed higher power density and energy density after adjusting the potential window, indicating the importance of optimizing potential windows for efficient energy storage devices.
It is an indisputable fact that electrochemical performance is always ameliorated by introducing proper phosphorus vacancy defect into electrode materials. In this work, the lattice-like CoP grown on the nickel foam with appropriate concentration of vacancies is fabricated successfully. The specific capacitance of 1865 F g(-1) is improved by 1.7 times compared with the pristine CoP of 1125 F g(-1) at the current density of 1 A g(-1). Meanwhile, the deliberately designed electrode also possesses great stability of retention rate up to 90% after 5000 cycles. Before the electrode is assembled into the asymmetric supercapacitor, the potential window is altered by electrode potential blend technique in order to utilize capacitances of anode and cathode efficiently. Subsequently, the supercapacitor is studied in the electrochemistry systematically. The results show that power density is up to 737 W kg(-1) as energy density is 31 W h kg(-1). Meanwhile, the capacitance retention rate remains 88% after 5000 cycles. It is a meaningful guide for exploring efficient energy storage equipment that appropriate vacancies are injected into electrode materials, and optimal potential windows are obtained via electrode potential blend technology. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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