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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 51, Issue 48, Pages 18528-18541Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2dt02869g
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian
- [21676133]
- [2021J01990]
- [2021J05192]
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Researchers have developed a cobalt sulfide/carbon (CoS2/PZH) composite material by assembling cobalt sulfide and hierarchical porous carbon derived from Pien Tze Huang waste using a one-step hydrothermal method. The CoS2/PZH composite material exhibits a hierarchical porous structure with hollow CoS2 embedded in a PZH framework. It shows excellent synergistic effects, including shortened diffusion channels, exposed active sites, and stable structures, resulting in high specific capacity, energy density, and long-term cycling stability.
The development of electrode materials with a high specific capacitance, power density, and long-term stability is essential and remains a challenge for developing supercapacitors. Cobalt sulfides (CoS2) are considered one of the most promising and widely studied electrode materials for supercapacitors. Herein, CoS2 and hierarchical porous carbon derived from Pien Tze Huang waste are assembled into a cobalt sulfide/carbon (CoS2/PZH) matrix composite using a one-step hydrothermal method to resolve the challenges of supercapacitors. The resulting CoS2/PZH composite material exhibits a hierarchical porous structure with hollow CoS2 embedded in a PZH framework. The uniform dispersion of the hierarchical porous structure CoS2/PZH is achieved due to the PZH framework, while the uniform decoration of the porous PZH with the hollow CoS2 prevents the PZH from stacking easily. Moreover, the excellent synergistic effect of the hierarchical porous and hollow structure of CoS2/PZH can shorten the electron/ion diffusion channels, expose additional active sites, and provide stable structures for subsequent reactions. As a result, the CoS2/PZH composite material displays a high initial specific capacity of 447.5 F g(-1) at 0.5 A g(-1), a high energy density of 22.38 W h kg(-1), and long-term cycling stability (a retention rate of 92.3% over 10 000 cycles at 5 A g(-1)).
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