Issue 2, 2022

Vanadium disulfide nanosheets loaded on carbon cloth as electrode for flexible quasi-solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors: energy storage mechanism and electrochemical performance

Abstract

Supercapacitors have excellent current discharge capacity and high energy conversion efficiency, and compared with other energy storage devices they cause little pollution in the environment. However, they generally exhibit lower energy density. Herein, vanadium disulfide (VS2) nanosheets are grown on the surface of carbon cloth (CC) with a large specific surface area by a hydrothermal method to form a highly open network, which effectively promotes charge transfer and improves energy density. The synergistic effect of CC with double-layer capacitance characteristics and VS2 with pseudocapacitance characteristics is fully realized for enhancing the electrochemical performance. The specific capacitance of VS2/CC is 972.5 mF cm−2 at 1 mA cm−2, and the capacitance retention is 77.5% after 10 000 charge and discharge cycles at 10 mA cm−2. Furthermore, an asymmetric supercapacitor based on VS2/CC-12 and activated carbon (AC/CC) was also assembled. The asymmetric supercapacitor possesses a higher energy density of 0.22 mW h cm−2 at 4.24 mW cm−2. When the power density increases to 8.26 mW cm−2, the energy density is still 0.16 mW h cm−2. This demonstrates that VS2/CC composites have great potential applications as flexible supercapacitor electrode materials.

Graphical abstract: Vanadium disulfide nanosheets loaded on carbon cloth as electrode for flexible quasi-solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors: energy storage mechanism and electrochemical performance

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Aug 2021
Accepted
30 Nov 2021
First published
01 Dec 2021

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022,10, 640-648

Vanadium disulfide nanosheets loaded on carbon cloth as electrode for flexible quasi-solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors: energy storage mechanism and electrochemical performance

M. Y. Zhang, J. Y. Miao, X. H. Yan, Y. H. Zhu, Y. L. Li, W. J. Zhang, W. Zhu, J. M. Pan, M. S. Javed and S. Hussain, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, 10, 640 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC03903B

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