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Flower-like Bi2O3 with enhanced rate capability and cycling stability for supercapacitors

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In this paper, Bi2O3 samples were prepared by a hydrothermal way. The effects of microstructure on the electrochemical properties of Bi2O3 samples were studied by adjusting hydrothermal time of synthesization (2, 6, 10, 14, and 18 h) to control the microstructure. The structure, morphology, specific surface, and chemical environment of Bi2O3 were characterized by XRD, SEM, BET, and XPS. XRD patterns revealed that all diffraction peaks intensity increased with the increase of reaction time and it indicates that a higher crystallization had taken place. However, continuous improvements in electrochemical properties of the samples were not found with enhancement of the crystallinity. The specific capacitance decreases with the increase of crystalline grain size. From the SEM results, as the hydrothermal time increases, it is obvious that the sample particles agglomerate to flakes and then to flowers. The sample of Bi2O3 with a hydrothermal time of 10 h exhibited a high specific capacitance (980 F g−1 at 1 A g−1), excellent capacity retention (86.9% from 1 to 20 A g−1), and a good cycle stability (85.2% at 5 A g−1 after 1000 cycles). The significance of this work is that it is possible to boost the electrochemical properties of the samples by controlling the microstructures, including reducing the crystalline grain size and maintaining a proper morphology of Bi2O3 particles.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Numbers 11875209, 11575130, 11705029) and National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2019YFA0210003), partly supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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    Bangyun Xiong & Jingjing Li

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Yang, S., Ping, Y., Qian, L. et al. Flower-like Bi2O3 with enhanced rate capability and cycling stability for supercapacitors. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 2221–2230 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-019-02753-4

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