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Micro-Spatial Hydrothermal Preparation of Nitrogen-doped Carbon/NiCo2S4 Electrode Material for Supercapacitors

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Reasonable combination of carbon and pseudocapacitive material in a composite electrode can produce a high-performance supercapacitor. However, the nano-structured pseudocapacitive materials tend to assemble randomly into microscale bulky forms during the preparation of composite electrode materials, which suffer from a low specific surface area and a mechanically weak structure, resulting in poor electrochemical performance. In this article, a nitrogen-doped carbon/NiCo2S4 electrode material was prepared by micro-spatial hydrothermal reaction in the multicellular microstructure of auricularia. The micro-space-multicellular microstructure of auricularia can provide a huge and efficient nucleation center of NiCo2S4 nanomaterials during the hydrothermal reaction. The morphology of nitrogen-doped carbon/NiCo2S4 electrode material can be effectively controlled by changing the amount of metal ions. The stacked NiCo2S4 nanoparticles of the NC/NiCo2S4-6 electrode material exhibit a network-like structure to a certain extent. The maximum mass specific capacitance of the NC/NiCo2S4-6 electrode material is about 1131 F g−1 at a current density of 0.25 A g−1. There is 81.5% retention of its initial capacitance after 10,000 cycles.

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The NC/NiCo2S4 electrode material, prepared by micro-spatial hydrothermal reaction in the multicellular microstructure of auricularia, exhibits good electrochemical cycling stability.

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Financial support was kindly supplied by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 21601162) and the Special project of basic research for key scientific research projects of colleges and universities in Henan Province (20ZX008).

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  1. School of Material and Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, 450002, People’s Republic of China

    Qingyuan Niu, Zixin Feng, Kezheng Gao & Lizhen Wang

  2. Research Institute of Wood Industry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, No. 1 Dongxiaofu, Haidian District, Beijing, 100091, People’s Republic of China

    Qiheng Tang

  3. China National Building Material Group, No. 1 Guan Zhuang Dong Li, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100024, People’s Republic of China

    Xiankai Sun

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Niu, Q., Feng, Z., Gao, K. et al. Micro-Spatial Hydrothermal Preparation of Nitrogen-doped Carbon/NiCo2S4 Electrode Material for Supercapacitors. Journal of Elec Materi 50, 4915–4923 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-021-09042-z

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