Nickel/Cobalt Molybdate Hollow Rods Induced by Structure and Defect Engineering as Exceptional Electrode Materials for Hybrid Supercapacitor
Dawei Chu, Xun Zhao, Boxin Xiao, Alberto Libanori, Yihao Zhou, Lichao Tan, Huiyuan Ma, Haijun Pang, Xinming Wang, Yanxia Jiang, Jun Chen
Abstract
Abstract Oxygen defects and hollow structures positively impact pseudocapacitive properties of diffusion/surface‐controlled processes, a component of critical importance when building high‐performance supercapacitors. Hence, we fabricated hollow nickel/cobalt molybdate rods with O‐defects (D−H−NiMoO 4 @CoMoO 4 ) through a soft‐template and partial reduction method, enhancing D−H−NiMoO 4 @CoMoO 4 ’s electrochemical performance, yielding a specific capacitance of 1329 F g −1 , and demonstrating excellent durability with 95.8 % capacity retention after 3000 cycles. D−H−NiMoO 4 @CoMoO 4 was used as the positive electrode to construct an asymmetric supercapacitor, displaying an energy density of up to 34.13 Wh kg −1 and demonstrating good predisposition towards practical applications. This work presents an effective approach to fabricate and use hollow nickel/cobalt molybdate rods with O‐defects as pseudocapacitor material for high‐performance capacitive energy storage devices.