Synthesis of Nanosheet Crystallites of Ruthenate with an α-NaFeO2-Related Structure and Its Electrochemical Supercapacitor Property

Unilamellar crystallites of conductive ruthenium oxide having a thickness of about 1 nm were obtained via elemental exfoliation of a protonic layered ruthenate, H0.2RuO2 center dot 0.5H(2)O, with an alpha-NaFeO2-related crystal structure. The obtained RuO2 nanosheets possessed a well-defined crystalline structure with a hexagonal symmetry, reflecting the crystal structure of the parent material. The restacked RuO2 nanosheets exhibited a high pseudocapacitance of similar to 700 F g(-1) in an acidic electrolyte, which is almost double the value of the nonexfoliated layered protonated ruthenate.