Ethylene glycol-mediated direct synthesis of nanostructured nickel oxide-carbon composite material on nickel foam and its electrochemical property

Author

Sa Lv ; Chao Wang ; Xiaotian Yang

Author_Institution

Intell. Building Syst. Integration & Energy Control Lab, Jilin Inst. of Archit. & Civil Eng., Changchun, China

Volume

8

Issue

5

fYear

2013

fDate

May-13

Firstpage

234

Lastpage

237

Abstract

A convenient ethylene glycol (EG)-mediated one-pot solvothermal route was designed for direct synthesis of nanostructured nickel oxide-carbon composite material on nickel foam. EG was employed as solvent, complex agent and carbon source. Furthermore, cyclic voltammetry and constant current charge-discharge measurements confirmed that the composite material electrode displayed good electrochemical activity with a maximum specific capacitance of 539 F g^-1 at a current density of 0.25 A g^-1.

Keywords

carbon; current density; electrochemical electrodes; metal foams; nanocomposites; nanofabrication; nickel compounds; solvent effects; voltammetry (chemical analysis); Ni; NiO-C; carbon source; complex agent; constant current charge-discharge measurements; current density; cyclic voltammetry; electrochemical activity; electrodes; ethylene glycol-mediated one-pot solvothermal method; maximum specific capacitance; nanostructured nickel oxide-carbon composite material; nickel foam; solvent effects;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro & Nano Letters, IET

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1750-0443

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/mnl.2013.0082

Filename

6544977