TY - JOUR
T1 - NiCo2O4@TiN Core-shell Electrodes through Conformal Atomic Layer Deposition for All-solid-state Supercapacitors
AU - Wang, Renqi
AU - Xia, Chuan
AU - Wei, Nini
AU - Alshareef, Husam N.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-02-10
Acknowledgements: The research reported in this publication has been supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Ruiqi Wang thanks the KAUST Visiting Student Research Program for the excellent opportunity. The authors thank the staff of the KAUST Nanofabrication, Thin Film, Imaging, and Characterization Core Laboratories for their wonderful support.
PY - 2016/3/12
Y1 - 2016/3/12
N2 - Ternary transition metal oxides such as NiCo2O4 show great promise as supercapacitor electrode materials. However, the unsatisfactory rate performance of NiCo2O4 may prove to be a major hurdle to its commercial usage. Herein, we report the development of NiCo2O4@TiN core–shell nanostructures for all-solid-state supercapacitors with significantly enhanced rate capability. We demonstrate that a thin layer of TiN conformally grown by atomic layer deposition (ALD) on NiCo2O4 nanofiber arrays plays a key role in improving their electrical conductivity, mechanical stability, and rate performance. Fabricated using the hybrid NiCo2O4@TiN electrodes, the symmetric all-solid-state supercapacitor exhibited an impressive stack power density of 58.205 mW cm−3 at a stack energy density of 0.061 mWh cm−3. To the best of our knowledge, these values are the highest of any NiCo2O4-based all-solid-state supercapacitor reported. Additionally, the resulting NiCo2O4@TiN all-solid-state device displayed outstanding cycling stability by retaining 70% of its original capacitance after 20,000 cycles at a high current density of 10 mA cm−2. These results illustrate the promise of ALD-assisted hybrid NiCo2O4@TiN electrodes for sustainable and integrated energy storage applications.
AB - Ternary transition metal oxides such as NiCo2O4 show great promise as supercapacitor electrode materials. However, the unsatisfactory rate performance of NiCo2O4 may prove to be a major hurdle to its commercial usage. Herein, we report the development of NiCo2O4@TiN core–shell nanostructures for all-solid-state supercapacitors with significantly enhanced rate capability. We demonstrate that a thin layer of TiN conformally grown by atomic layer deposition (ALD) on NiCo2O4 nanofiber arrays plays a key role in improving their electrical conductivity, mechanical stability, and rate performance. Fabricated using the hybrid NiCo2O4@TiN electrodes, the symmetric all-solid-state supercapacitor exhibited an impressive stack power density of 58.205 mW cm−3 at a stack energy density of 0.061 mWh cm−3. To the best of our knowledge, these values are the highest of any NiCo2O4-based all-solid-state supercapacitor reported. Additionally, the resulting NiCo2O4@TiN all-solid-state device displayed outstanding cycling stability by retaining 70% of its original capacitance after 20,000 cycles at a high current density of 10 mA cm−2. These results illustrate the promise of ALD-assisted hybrid NiCo2O4@TiN electrodes for sustainable and integrated energy storage applications.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/600666
UR - http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S001346861630531X
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84961616831&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.03.015
DO - 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.03.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84961616831
VL - 196
SP - 611
EP - 621
JO - Electrochimica Acta
JF - Electrochimica Acta
SN - 0013-4686
ER -