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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH
Volume 45, Issue 15, Pages 21516-21526Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/er.7156
Keywords
energy storage; hollow sphere; hybrid supercapacitor; NiMoO4; oxygen vacancy
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- Ministry of Education, National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2016R1D1A1B01009640]
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The study demonstrates the facile design and fabrication of oxygen-vacant NiMoO4 hollow sphere electrode materials through a simple hydrothermal approach and subsequent heat treatment under an argon atmosphere. The introduction of oxygen vacancies enhances electrical conductivity, improves charge-storage capability, and results in higher specific capacity and energy density in hybrid supercapacitors.
The facile design and fabrication of nanoarchitectured binary transition metal oxide electrode materials are essentially required for the advancement of high-performance supercapacitors (SCs). Herein, we prepared an oxygen-vacant NiMoO4 (Ov-NiMoO4) hollow sphere via a simple hydrothermal approach and subsequent heat treatment under an argon atmosphere. In particular, the oxygen vacancy is confirmed by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Raman, and differential reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) UV-Vis spectra studies. Furthermore, the generation of the oxygen vacancy could enhance the electrical conductivity and improve Faradaic redox sites. Significantly, the Ov-NiMoO4 hollow sphere depicts a larger specific capacity (C-sp) of 496 mA h g(-1) at 1 A g(-1) than the bare-NiMoO4 (b-NiMoO4; 279 mA h g(-1)) thermally treated under air. Furthermore, the hybrid SC (HSC) is fabricated based on the Ov-NiMoO4//activated carbon, revealing a high specific capacitance (C-s) of 120 F g(-1) and providing a large energy density (ED) of 37.49 W h kg(-1) and power density (PD) of 36.61 kW kg(-1). Moreover, the HSC shows considerable cyclic stability of similar to 91.14% over 20 000 cycles. The results divulge that the poor crystallinity and the introduction of oxygen vacancies play a vital role in enhancing the charge-storage capability of the materials.
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