• 文献标题:   Compression-tolerant supercapacitor based on NiCo2O4/Ti3C2Tx MXene/reduced graphene oxide composite aerogel with insights from density functional theory simulations
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG MZ, JIANG DG, JIN FH, SUN YS, WANG JH, JIANG MY, CAO JY, ZHANG B, LIU JQ
  • 作者关键词:   rgo, elastic aerogel, dft calculation, compressible supercapacitor
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF COLLOID INTERFACE SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0021-9797 EI 1095-7103
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  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.jcis.2022.12.159 EA JAN 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Compression-tolerant electrodes are critical for developing next-generation wearable energy storage devices. However, most of previous studies on compressible electrodes focus on carbon-based materials, whereas metal-based materials such as spinel metal oxide with faradaic nature have been rarely studied due to their lack of compressibility. Herein, NiCo2O4 (NCO) microtubes assembled by ultrathin and meso-porous nanosheets, are deposited on/into Ti3C2Tx MXene/reduced graphene oxide aerogel (MGA), an intrinsically compressible host template with high conductivity and specific surface areas. The optimized NCO/MGA-300 sample shows a reversible compressive strain of 60% and a superior durability. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the NCO/MGA-300 heterojunction has high electronic conductivity, fast electron transfer ability, and low adsorption energy for OH- ions. As a result, the NCO/MGA-300 electrode exhibits superb electrochemical performance in terms of its high gravimetric capacitance (1633F g-1 at 1 A g-1), rate performance (1492F g-1 at 10 A g-1), and remarkable cycling sta-bility of 86.6% after 10,000 charge-discharging cycles. Moreover, an assembled asymmetric supercapac-itor based on compressible NCO/MGA-300 shows stable electrochemical performances under different compressive strains (20%. 40% and 60%), or after 100 compression-release cycles. This research finding demonstrates the possibility of metal-based electrode for wearable devices with high energy storage capability and good compressibility.