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Highly flexible conductive fabrics with hierarchically nanostructured amorphous nickel tungsten tetraoxide for enhanced electrochemical energy storage

Show Author's Information Goli Nagaraju1,  Ramesh Kakarla2,  Sung Min Cha1,  Jae Su Yu1( )
Department of Electronics and Radio EngineeringInstitute for Wearable Convergence Electronics, Kyung Hee University1 Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do446-701Republic of Korea
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University1 Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggido446-701Republic of Korea
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electrochemical deposition, amorphous NiWO4 nanostructures, conductive fabrics, electrochemical energy storage properties
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Nagaraju G, Kakarla R, Cha SM, et al. Highly flexible conductive fabrics with hierarchically nanostructured amorphous nickel tungsten tetraoxide for enhanced electrochemical energy storage. Nano Research, 2015, 8(12): 3749-3763. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-015-0874-z
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Amorphous nickel tungsten tetraoxide (NiWO4) nanostructures (NSs) were successfully synthesized on a flexible conductive fabric (CF) using a facile onestep electrochemical deposition (ED) method. With an applied external cathodic voltage (–1.8 V for 15 min), the amorphous NiWO4 NSs with burl-like morphologies adhered well on the seed-coated CF substrate. The burl-like amorphous NiWO4 NSs on CF (NiWO4 NSs/CF) are employed as a flexible and binder-free electrode for pseudocapacitors, which exhibit remarkable electrochemical properties with high specific capacitance (1, 190.2 F/g at 2 A/g), excellent cyclic stability (92% at 10 A/g), and good rate capability (765.7 F/g at 20 A/g) in 1 M KOH electrolyte solution. The superior electrochemical properties can be ascribed to the hierarchical structure and large specific surface area of the burl-like amorphous NiWO4 NSs/CF. This cost-effective facile method for the synthesis of metal tungsten tetraoxide nanomaterials on a flexible CF could be promising for advanced electronic and energy storage device applications.


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Highly flexible conductive fabrics with hierarchically nanostructured amorphous nickel tungsten tetraoxide for enhanced electrochemical energy storage

Show Author's information Goli Nagaraju1, Ramesh Kakarla2, Sung Min Cha1, Jae Su Yu1( )
Department of Electronics and Radio EngineeringInstitute for Wearable Convergence Electronics, Kyung Hee University1 Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do446-701Republic of Korea
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University1 Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggido446-701Republic of Korea

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Amorphous nickel tungsten tetraoxide (NiWO4) nanostructures (NSs) were successfully synthesized on a flexible conductive fabric (CF) using a facile onestep electrochemical deposition (ED) method. With an applied external cathodic voltage (–1.8 V for 15 min), the amorphous NiWO4 NSs with burl-like morphologies adhered well on the seed-coated CF substrate. The burl-like amorphous NiWO4 NSs on CF (NiWO4 NSs/CF) are employed as a flexible and binder-free electrode for pseudocapacitors, which exhibit remarkable electrochemical properties with high specific capacitance (1, 190.2 F/g at 2 A/g), excellent cyclic stability (92% at 10 A/g), and good rate capability (765.7 F/g at 20 A/g) in 1 M KOH electrolyte solution. The superior electrochemical properties can be ascribed to the hierarchical structure and large specific surface area of the burl-like amorphous NiWO4 NSs/CF. This cost-effective facile method for the synthesis of metal tungsten tetraoxide nanomaterials on a flexible CF could be promising for advanced electronic and energy storage device applications.

Keywords: electrochemical deposition, amorphous NiWO4 nanostructures, conductive fabrics, electrochemical energy storage properties

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Received: 27 May 2015
Revised: 24 July 2015
Accepted: 03 August 2015
Published: 01 October 2015
Issue date: December 2015

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. 2014-069441).

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