One-step synthesis of copper compounds on copper foil and their supercapacitive performance
- 15 April 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in RSC Advances
- Vol. 5 (46), 36656-36664
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ra04889c
Abstract
Nanowire-like Cu(OH)2 arrays, microflower-like CuO standing on Cu(OH)2 nanowires and hierarchical CuO microflowers are directly synthesized via a simple and cost-effective liquid–solid reaction. The specific capacitance of Cu(OH)2, CuO/Cu(OH)2 and CuO are 511.5, 78.44 and 30.36 F g−1, respectively, at a current density of 5 mA cm−2. Therefore, the Cu(OH)2/Cu-foil electrode displays the best supercapacitive performance. The capacitance retention reaches up to 83% after 5000 charge/discharge cycles with the columbic efficiency of ∼98%. More importantly, the nanowire Cu(OH)2 transformed into stable nanosheet CuO after about 600 constant current charge–discharge cycles. Additionally, we fabricate an asymmetric supercapacitor with nanowire Cu(OH)2/Cu-foil as a positive electrode, activated carbon (AC) as a negative electrode and 6 mol dm−3 KOH as electrolyte, which exhibits an energy density of 18.3 W h kg−1 at a power density of 326 W kg−1.Keywords
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