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Cr2O3 nanoparticles: a fascinating electrode material combining both surface-controlled and diffusion-limited redox reactions for aqueous supercapacitors

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Chromium oxide has emerged as an attractive electrode material to construct high-performance supercapacitor. Despite some available reports on Cr2O3-based supercapacitors, the charge storage of Cr2O3 electrodes in alkaline electrolytes is far from being understood unlike those of other compounds of Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni etc in periodic table of elements. Herein, the detail kinetics analyses of electrochemical behaviors of the electrode based on Cr2O3 nanoparticles in alkaline electrolyte were demonstrated in this work. We examine that there are both surface-controlled pseudocapacitance (with a contribution of 76%) and diffusion-limited redox reactions (with a contribution of 24%) for the charge storage in electrode based on Cr2O3 nanoparticles at a low sweep rate of 1 mV s−1. The identifying pseudocapacitive contribution dominates the charge storage in electrode based on Cr2O3 nanoparticles at high sweep rates, reaching up to 96% at 50 mV s−1. In addition, the assembled hybrid supercapacitor based on Cr2O3 nanoparticles as the positive electrode displays an operating voltage of 1.45 V, an energy density of 14.7 Wh kg−1, and high stability of 3000 cycles. This work will contribute to the development of pseudocapacitive electrode materials for supercapacitors.

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Acknowledgements

Financial supports from National Natural Science Foundation of China (21463013), Jiangxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology (20171BAB203013), Jiangxi Provincial Education Department (GJJ160290), and Open Project Program of Key Laboratory of Functional Small Organic Molecule, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University (KLFS-KF-201716) are greatly appreciated. Z.L. and Y.W. would like to express the financial support of National Materials Genome Project (2016YFB0700600), National Natural Science Foundation Committee of China (Distinguished Youth Scientists Project of 51573013) and Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. Kycx18_1122). The computational resources generously provided by the High Performance Computing Center of Nanjing Tech University are greatly appreciated.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Functional Small Organic Molecules, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China

    Tianli Li, Li Zhu, Lu Hu, Lei Zhang & Zubiao Wen

  2. State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 211816, China

    Zaichun Liu & Yuping Wu

  3. Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Precision Drive and Control, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang, 330099, China

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Li, T., Liu, Z., Zhu, L. et al. Cr2O3 nanoparticles: a fascinating electrode material combining both surface-controlled and diffusion-limited redox reactions for aqueous supercapacitors. J Mater Sci 53, 16458–16465 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-018-2743-0

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