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A Dendritic Nickel Cobalt Sulfide Nanostructure for Alkaline Battery Electrodes

Li, W; Zhang, B; Lin, R; Ho-Kimura, S; He, G; Zhou, X; Hu, J; (2018) A Dendritic Nickel Cobalt Sulfide Nanostructure for Alkaline Battery Electrodes. Advanced Functional Materials 10.1002/adfm.201705937. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

A uniform dendritic NiCo 2 S 4 at NiCo 2 S 4 hierarchical nanostructure of width ≈100 nm is successfully designed and synthesized. From kinetic analysis of the electrochemical reactions, those electrodes function in rechargeable alkaline batteries (RABs). The dendritic structure exhibited by the electrodes has a high discharge-specific capacity of 4.43 mAh cm -2 at a high current density of 240 mA cm -2 with a good rate capability of 70.1% after increasing the current densities from 40 to 240 mA cm -2 . At low scan rate of 0.5 mV s -1 in cyclic voltammetry test, the semidiffusion controlled electrochemical reaction contributes ≈92% of the total capacity, this value decreases to ≈43% at a high scan rate of 20 mV s -1 . These results enable a detailed analysis of the reaction mechanism for RABs and suggest design concepts for new electrode materials.

Type: Article
Title: A Dendritic Nickel Cobalt Sulfide Nanostructure for Alkaline Battery Electrodes
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705937
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201705937
Language: English
Additional information: © 2018 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10049411
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