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The morphology and electrical conductivity are essential to electrochemical performance of electrode materials in renewable energy conversion and storage technologies such as fuel cells and supercapacitors. Here, we explored a facile method to grow Ag@nickel-cobalt layered double hydroxide (Ag@Ni/Co-LDHs) with 3D flower-like microsphere structure. The results show the morphology of Ni/Co-LDHs varies with the introduction of Ag species. The prepared Ag@Ni/Co-LDHs not only exhibits an open hierarchical structure with high specific capacitance but also shows good electrical conductivity to support fast electron transport. Benefiting from the unique structural features, these flower-like Ag@Ni/Co-LDHs microspheres have impressive specific capacitance as high as 1768 F g−1 at 1 A g−1. It can be concluded that engineering the structure of the electrode can increase the efficiency of the specific capacitance as a battery-type electrode for hybrid supercapacitors.
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Lv, Z., Zhong, Q., Bu, Y. et al. 3D flower-like hierarchical Ag@nickel-cobalt hydroxide microsphere with enhanced electrochemical properties. Electron. Mater. Lett. 12, 824–829 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13391-016-6188-9
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