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Capacitance and voltage matching between MnO2 nanoflake cathode and Fe2O3 nanoparticle anode for high-performance asymmetric micro-supercapacitors

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Planar micro-supercapacitors show great potential as the energy storage unit in miniaturized electronic devices. Asymmetric structures have been widely investigated in micro-supercapacitors, and carbon-based materials are commonly applied in the electrodes. To integrate different metal oxides in both electrodes in micro-supercapacitors, the critical challenge is the pairing of different faradic metal oxides. Herein, we propose a strategy of matching the voltage and capacitance of two faradic materials that are fully integrated into one high-performance asymmetric micro-supercapacitor by a facile and controllable fabrication process. The fabricated micro-supercapacitors employ MnO2 as the positive active material and Fe2O3 as the negative active material, respectively. The planar asymmetric micro-supercapacitors possess a high capacitance of 60 F·cm–3, a high energy density of 12 mW·h·cm–3, and a broad operation voltage range up to 1.2 V.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFA0202603), the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2013CB934103), the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (No. B17034), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51521001, 51502227, 51579198, and 51302203), the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 51425204), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WUT: 2016III001, 2016III005, 2016III006).

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    Zehua Liu, Xiaocong Tian, Xu Xu, Liang He, Mengyu Yan, Chunhua Han, Yan Li, Wei Yang & Liqiang Mai

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Liu, Z., Tian, X., Xu, X. et al. Capacitance and voltage matching between MnO2 nanoflake cathode and Fe2O3 nanoparticle anode for high-performance asymmetric micro-supercapacitors. Nano Res. 10, 2471–2481 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1451-4

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