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A facile strategy of in-situ anchoring of Co3O4 on N doped carbon cloth for an ultrahigh electrochemical performance

Show Author's Information Junlin Lu1,  Jien Li1,  Jing Wan1,  Xiangyu Han1,  Peiyuan Ji1,  Shuang Luo1,  Mingxin Gu2,  Dapeng Wei2( ),  Chenguo Hu1( )
Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Smart Materials, Department of Applied Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Key Laboratory of Multi-Scale Manufacturing Technology, Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400714, China
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Enhancement of supercapacitors (SCs) with high-energy density and high-power density is still a great challenge. In this paper, a facile strategy for in situ anchoring of Co3O4 particles on N doped carbon cloth (pCoNCC) is reported. Due to the interaction of the doped N and Co3O4, the electrochemical performance improves significantly, reaching 1,940.13 mF·cm-2 at 1 mA·cm-2 and energy density of 172.46 µWh·cm-2 at the power density of 400 µW·cm-2, much larger than that without N doping electrode of 28.5 mF·cm-2. An aqueous symmetric supercapacitor (ASSC) assembled by two pCoNCC electrodes achieves a maximum energy density of 447.42 µWh·cm-2 and a highest power density of 8,000 µW·cm-2. Utilizing such a high-energy storage ASSC, a digital watch and a temperature-humidity detector are powered for nearly 1 and 2 h, respectively. Moreover, the ASSC displays a superb electrochemical stability of 87.7% retention after 10,000 cycles at 40 mA·cm-2. This work would provide a new sight to enhance active materials performance and be beneficial for the future energy storage and supply systems.


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A facile strategy of in-situ anchoring of Co3O4 on N doped carbon cloth for an ultrahigh electrochemical performance

Show Author's information Junlin Lu1, Jien Li1, Jing Wan1, Xiangyu Han1, Peiyuan Ji1, Shuang Luo1, Mingxin Gu2, Dapeng Wei2( ), Chenguo Hu1( )
Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Smart Materials, Department of Applied Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Key Laboratory of Multi-Scale Manufacturing Technology, Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400714, China

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Enhancement of supercapacitors (SCs) with high-energy density and high-power density is still a great challenge. In this paper, a facile strategy for in situ anchoring of Co3O4 particles on N doped carbon cloth (pCoNCC) is reported. Due to the interaction of the doped N and Co3O4, the electrochemical performance improves significantly, reaching 1,940.13 mF·cm-2 at 1 mA·cm-2 and energy density of 172.46 µWh·cm-2 at the power density of 400 µW·cm-2, much larger than that without N doping electrode of 28.5 mF·cm-2. An aqueous symmetric supercapacitor (ASSC) assembled by two pCoNCC electrodes achieves a maximum energy density of 447.42 µWh·cm-2 and a highest power density of 8,000 µW·cm-2. Utilizing such a high-energy storage ASSC, a digital watch and a temperature-humidity detector are powered for nearly 1 and 2 h, respectively. Moreover, the ASSC displays a superb electrochemical stability of 87.7% retention after 10,000 cycles at 40 mA·cm-2. This work would provide a new sight to enhance active materials performance and be beneficial for the future energy storage and supply systems.

Keywords: supercapacitor, Co3O4, carbon cloth, N doping

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Received: 14 September 2020
Revised: 12 November 2020
Accepted: 13 November 2020
Published: 05 July 2021
Issue date: July 2021

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51772036 and 51572040) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 2019CDXZWL001 and 2020CDCGJ005). We would like to thank Analytical and Testing Center of Chongqing University for ESEM, BET, XPS, EDS and XRD measurement.

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