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Vol. 10 No. 4 (2018)

A Novel Hierarchical Porous 3D Structured Vanadium Nitride/Carbon Membranes for High-performance Supercapacitor Negative Electrodes

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-018-0217-1
Yage Wu
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, People’s Republic of China
Yunlong Yang
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, People’s Republic of China
Xiaoning Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, People’s Republic of China
Yongtao Tan
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, People’s Republic of China
Ying Liu
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, People’s Republic of China
Zhen Wang
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, People’s Republic of China
Fen Ran
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Fen Ran

ranfen@163.com

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 10 No. 4 (2018), Article Number: 63

Abstract

Transition-metal nitrides exhibit wide potential windows and good electrochemical performance, but usually experience imbalanced practical applications in the energy storage field due to aggregation, poor circulation stability, and complicated syntheses. In this study, a novel and simple multi-phase polymeric strategy was developed to fabricate hybrid vanadium nitride/carbon (VN/C) membranes for supercapacitor negative electrodes, in which VN nanoparticles were uniformly distributed in the hierarchical porous carbon 3D networks. The supercapacitor negative electrode based on VN/C membranes exhibited a high specific capacitance of 392.0 F g−1 at 0.5 A g−1 and an excellent rate capability with capacitance retention of 50.5% at 30 A g−1. For the asymmetric device fabricated using Ni(OH)2//VN/C membranes, a high energy density of 43.0 Wh kg−1 at a power density of 800 W kg−1 was observed. Moreover, the device also showed good cycling stability of 82.9% at a current density of 1.0 A g−1 after 8000 cycles. This work may throw a light on simply the fabrication of other high-performance transition-metal nitride-based supercapacitor or other energy storage devices.


Highlights:


1 A novel and simple multi-phase polymeric strategy was used to fabricate hierarchical porous 3D structured vanadium nitride/carbon (VN/C) membranes.
2 The supercapacitor negative electrodes based on VN/C membranes exhibited a high specific capacitance of 392.0 F g−1 at 0.5 A g−1 and an excellent rate capability with capacitance retention of 50.5% at 30 A g−1.
3 The asymmetric device fabricated using Ni(OH)2/VN/C membranes has a high energy density of 43.0 Wh kg−1 at a power density of 800 W kg−1 and good cycling stability of 82.9% at 1.0 A g−1 after 8000 cycles.

Keywords

Supercapacitors Vanadium nitride/carbon 3D network Hierarchical porous structure
Wu, Yage, Yunlong Yang, Xiaoning Zhao, Yongtao Tan, Ying Liu, Zhen Wang, and Fen Ran. 2018. “A Novel Hierarchical Porous 3D Structured Vanadium Nitride/Carbon Membranes for High-Performance Supercapacitor Negative Electrodes”. Nano-Micro Letters 10 (4):63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-018-0217-1.
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