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Hydrothermally grown net-like interconnected nanoflakes and microflowers of vanadium oxide for supercapacitive applications

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The net-like interconnected nanoflakes of vanadium oxide are grown on flexible stainless-steel substrate by simple hydrothermal method. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies represent the hierarchical microflowers grown on the net-like nanoflakes’ structure exhibiting the availability of large surface area. The structural, compositional, and elemental mapping analysis are done by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and electron dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), respectively. This confirms the presence of vanadium pentoxide phase of the material. Mesoporous structure is confirmed from Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET). The mesoporous vanadium oxide has exhibited the specific capacitance of 500 F/g at 0.01A/g current density in 1 M LiCl \({O}_{4}\) electrolyte. The specific capacitance shows 93% retention at 4000 cycles. The internal resistance (Rs) of the electrode is only 4.23 Ω.

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The authors acknowledge the use of instruments at the Department of Physics, Sanjay Ghodawat University, Atigre. AY would like to thank the SARATHI for financial support.

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    Aditi D. Yadav, Rutuja B. Patil, Rutuja Gurav, Sanket Mali, Sambhaji Pawar & Sarita P. Patil

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The manuscript was written through contributions of all authors. All authors have given approval to the final version of the manuscript. Conception: AD Yadav and SP Patil. Experimental design: RB Patil and R Gurav, Carrying out measurements: AD Yadav, M Waikar and R Sonkawade. Manuscript composition: SP Patil, SS Mali and SM Pawar.

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Yadav, A.D., Patil, R.B., Gurav, R. et al. Hydrothermally grown net-like interconnected nanoflakes and microflowers of vanadium oxide for supercapacitive applications. Ionics 30, 2191–2202 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-024-05430-7

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