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Multicomponent Hierarchical Cu-Doped NiCo-LDH/
CuO Double Arrays for Ultralong-Life Hybrid Fiber
Supercapacitor
Yaqing Guo, Xufeng Hong, Yao Wang, Qi Li, Jiashen Meng, Runtao Dai, Xiong Liu,
Liang He,* and Liqiang Mai*
Fiber supercapacitors have aroused great interest in the field of portable
and wearable electronic devices. However, the restrained surface area of
fibers and limited reaction kinetics of active materials are unfavorable for
performance enhancement. Herein, an efficient multicomponent hierarchical
structure is constructed by integrating the Cu-doped cobalt copper carbonate
hydroxide@nickel cobalt layered double hydroxide (CCCH@NiCo-LDH) core–
shell nanowire arrays (NWAs) on Cu fibers with highly conductive Au-modi-
fied CuO nanosheets (CCCH@NiCo-LDH NWAs@Au–CuO/Cu) via a novel
in situ corrosion growth method. This multicomponent hierarchical structure
contributes to a large accessible surface area, which results in sufficient per-
meation of the electrolyte. The Cu dopant could reduce the work function and
facilitate fast charge transfer kinetics. Therefore, the effective ion diffusion
and electron conduction will facilitate the electrochemical reaction kinetics of
the electrode. Benefiting from this unique structure, the electrode delivers a
high specific capacitance (1.97 F cm
-2
/1237 F g
-1
/193.3 mAh g
-1
) and cycling
stability (90.8% after 30 000 cycles), exhibiting superb performance compared
with most oxide-based fiber electrodes. Furthermore, the hybrid fiber super-
capacitor of CCCH@NiCo-LDH NWAs@Au–CuO/Cu//VN/carbon fibers is
fabricated, providing a remarkable maximal energy density of 34.97 Wh kg
-1
and a power density of 13.86 kW kg
-1
, exhibiting a great potential in high-
performance fiber-shape energy-related systems.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201809004
Y. Q. Guo, X. F. Hong, Y. Wang, Prof. Q. Li, J. S. Meng, R. T. Dai,
X. Liu, Prof. L. He, Prof. L. Q. Mai
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis
and Processing
International School of Materials Science and Engineering
Wuhan University of Technology
Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
E-mail: hel@whut.edu.cn; mlq518@whut.edu.cn
R. T. Dai
School of Journalism and Communication
Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084, P. R. China
Prof. L. He
Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Rice University
Houston, TX 77005, USA
The ORCID identification number(s) for the author(s) of this article
can be found under https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201809004.
1. Introduction
Fiber supercapacitors (SCs) have been
explosively developed as a significant kind
of energy storage device in portable and
wearable electronic equipment.
[1,2]
Similar
to other common SCs, the fiber SCs
deliver relatively high power output, faster
charge/discharge, yet have low energy
density.
[3,4]
Compared with the traditional
on-chip SCs, the fiber SCs are more flex-
ible and compatible for bending, twisting,
and stretching on anomalous substrates,
and can be easily adapted to high defor-
mation in wearable electronic devices.
[1,5,6]
However, the energy density of conven-
tional fiber SCs is generally much lower
than that of fiber batteries, such as fiber
lithium-ion batteries.
[7]
Developing hybrid
fiber SCs with a capacitor-type electrode as
a power source and a battery-like electrode
as an energy source is one of the most
efficient ways to enhance the capacitance
of fiber SCs. However, multiple efficient
strategies such as complex synthesis of
active materials for battery-like electrode
are difficult to be conducted due to the
limitation of fiber-like device structure.
Besides, this kind of SC always suffers from poor rate capability
and cycling stability.
[8–10]
Furthermore, a high-performance cur-
rent collector with optimized structure like three dimensional
(3D) framework is in favor of improving reaction kinetics and
areal mass loading of active materials.
[11,12]
Therefore, opti-
mizing performance of active material and constructing novel
electrode structure with an efficient and exercisable method for
hybrid fiber SCs with high energy density and cycling stability
are highly required.
[13–15]
Recently, nickel–cobalt layered double hydroxides (NiCo-
LDHs) as electroactive materials have been widely investigated
on account of their high theoretical capacitance (3000 F g
-1
),
low cost, and environmental friendliness.
[16]
However, the
rate of Faradaic reactions in bulk of battery-like electrode is
much slower than that on the surface, accompanying with low
electrical conductivity of the NiCo-LDH, leading to a lower
rate capability.
[17–21]
Additionally, the NiCo-LDH suffers from
inferior cycling stability.
[22]
Recently, Liu et al. reported that
Fiber Supercapacitors
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 1809004