Nanoporous Walls on Macroporous Foam: Rational Design of Electrodes to Push Areal Pseudocapacitance

Abstract

For application as a pseudocapacitor electrode, highly porous CoO nanowalls are fabricated directly on 3D macroporous nickel foam (see images). A relatively high areal capacitance is achieved because of the porous structure. By grafting the porous nanowalls with another pseudocapacitive oxide, the areal capacitance can be further significantly boosted, owing to the increased surface area caused by the hierarchically porous structure as well as a possible synergetic effect between the two oxides. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.