Morphology and crystal structure dependent pseudocapacitor performance of hydrated WO 3 nanostructures
The strategic morphology tuning of hydrated WO 3 nanostructures from two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets to three-dimensional (3D) slabs with enhanced in-plane crystalline nature and multilayered construction is realized via tailoring the synthesis temperature. The increasing synthesis temperature expan...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Materials advances 2020-10, Vol.1 (7), p.2492-2500 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The strategic morphology tuning of hydrated WO
3
nanostructures from two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets to three-dimensional (3D) slabs with enhanced in-plane crystalline nature and multilayered construction is realized
via
tailoring the synthesis temperature. The increasing synthesis temperature expands the degree of crystallinity, specific surface area and thickness of layered WO
3
·H
2
O sheets which results in slab like 3D morphology as characterized by X-ray diffraction spectra (XRD), Raman spectra and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The electrochemical study reveals the higher specific capacitance (386 F g
−1
) of 3D slabs compared to that of 2D nanosheets (254 F g
−1
) at a scan rate of 2 mV s
−1
. Moreover, 3D slabs demonstrate an excellent capacitance retention of 96% compared to 2D nanosheets (86%) after 3000 cycles. The enhanced performance of supercapacitors in 3D slabs is attributed to three significant aspects: first, confined coordinated hydrate in the crystalline layer provides a significant surface area and allows fast electrochemical proton insertion
via
the Eigen–Zundel–Eigen mechanism; second, the enhanced crystalline nature offers improved in-plane conductivity; and finally the structural defects and disorders due to the layered structure promote faradaic redox reactions. |
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ISSN: | 2633-5409 2633-5409 |
DOI: | 10.1039/D0MA00518E |