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One-step accurate synthesis of shell controllable CoFe2O4 hollow microspheres as high-performance electrode materials in supercapacitor

Show Author's Information Zhuo Wang1,2,  Wei Jia1,  Menglei Jiang1,  Chen Chen1( ),  Yadong Li1
Department of Chemistry & Collaborative Innovation Center for Nanomaterial Science and EngineeringTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
Institute of Electrical EngineeringChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190China
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supercapacitor, hollow spheres, multi-shelled, CoFe2O4
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Wang Z, Jia W, Jiang M, et al. One-step accurate synthesis of shell controllable CoFe2O4 hollow microspheres as high-performance electrode materials in supercapacitor. Nano Research, 2016, 9(7): 2026-2033. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-1093-y
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Multi-shelled CoFe2O4 hollow microspheres with a tunable number of layers (1–4) were successfully synthesized via a facile one-step method using cyclodextrin as a template, followed by calcination. The structural features, including the shell number and shell porosity, were controlled by adjusting the synthesis parameters to produce hollow spheres with excellent capacity and durability. This is a straightforward and general strategy for fabricating metal oxide or bimetallic metal oxide hollow microspheres with a tunable number of shells.


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One-step accurate synthesis of shell controllable CoFe2O4 hollow microspheres as high-performance electrode materials in supercapacitor

Show Author's information Zhuo Wang1,2, Wei Jia1, Menglei Jiang1, Chen Chen1( ), Yadong Li1
Department of Chemistry & Collaborative Innovation Center for Nanomaterial Science and EngineeringTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
Institute of Electrical EngineeringChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190China

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Multi-shelled CoFe2O4 hollow microspheres with a tunable number of layers (1–4) were successfully synthesized via a facile one-step method using cyclodextrin as a template, followed by calcination. The structural features, including the shell number and shell porosity, were controlled by adjusting the synthesis parameters to produce hollow spheres with excellent capacity and durability. This is a straightforward and general strategy for fabricating metal oxide or bimetallic metal oxide hollow microspheres with a tunable number of shells.

Keywords: supercapacitor, hollow spheres, multi-shelled, CoFe2O4

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Received: 30 January 2016
Revised: 22 March 2016
Accepted: 06 April 2016
Published: 10 May 2016
Issue date: July 2016

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© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21521091, 21131004, 21390393, U1463202 and 21573119).

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