4.7 Article

Facile synthesis of ultrafine cobalt oxide nanoparticles for high-performance supercapacitors

Journal

JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 505, Issue -, Pages 796-804

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2017.06.058

Keywords

Cobalt oxide; Ultrafine nanoparticles; Supercapacitor; Electrochemical performance

Funding

  1. scientific and technological projects for Distinguished Young Scholars of Sichuan Province [2015JQ0013]
  2. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [A0920502051408, A0920502051619-72]
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51602265]
  4. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2016M592692]

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The ultrafine Co3O4 nanoparticles are successfully prepared by a novel solvothermal-precipitation approach which exploits the supernatant liquid of Co3O4 nanoflake micropheres synthesized by solvothermal method before. Interestingly, the water is only employed to obtain the ultrafine nanoparticles in supernatant liquid which was usually thrown away before. The microstructure measurement results of the as-grown samples present the homogeneous disperse ultrafine Co3O4 nanoparticles with the size of around 5-10 nm. The corresponding synthesis mechanism of the ultrafine Co3O4 nanoparticles is proposed. More importantly, these ultrafine Co3O4 nanoparticles obtained at 250 degrees C show the highest specific capacitance of 523.0 F g(-1) at 0.5 A g(-1), 2.6 times that of Co3O4 nanoflake micropheres due to the quantum size effect. Meanwhile, the sample annealed under 350 degrees C possesses the best cycling stability with capacitance retention of 104.9% after 1500 cycles. These results unambiguously demonstrate that this work not only provides a novel, facile, and eco-friendly approach to prepare high-performance Co3O4 nanoparticles electrode materials for supercapacitors but also develops a widely used method for the preparation of other materials on a large scale. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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