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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 5, Issue 19, Pages 8964-8971Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta00624a
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21476264]
- Distinguished Young Scientist Foundation of Shandong Province [JQ201215]
- Taishan Scholar Foundation [ts20130929]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [15CX05029A, 15CX08009A, 15CX06038A]
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A 3D hybrid nanostructure, in which petal-like ultrathin nickel-aluminum layered double hydroxides (LDHs) were vertically grown on a conductive graphene/polypyrrole (GP) substrate, was designed and fabricated by a facile hydrothermal method. SEM and TEM observations confirmed the successful synthesis of this specially designed nanostructure, in which the conductive substrate ensures very fast electron transfer during the charge-discharge process, whereas the 3D hierarchical structure facilitates rapid ion transfer. The ultrathin LDH nanoflakes (3-5 nm) expose their abundant active sites to the electrolyte, thus generating huge pseudocapacitance. Combining the abovementioned features, this specially designed 3D nanostructured hybrid possesses an exceptional specific capacitance (2395 F g(-1) at 1 A g(-1)), excellent rate performance (retaining 71.8% of capacitance at the current density of 20 A g(-1)), and remarkable cycling stability (99.6% retention after 10 000 cycles). Moreover, the assembled asymmetric supercapacitor obtained using GP@LDH as a positive electrode and GP-derived carbon as a negative electrode exhibits an ultrahigh energy density of 94.4 W h kg(-1) at the power density of 463.1 W kg(-1), making GP@LDH very attractive as an electrode material for high performance and low-cost supercapacitors.
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