Cobalt sulfide aerogel prepared by anion exchange method with enhanced pseudocapacitive and water oxidation performances.

Title Cobalt sulfide aerogel prepared by anion exchange method with enhanced pseudocapacitive and water oxidation performances.
Authors Q. Gao; Z. Shi; K. Xue; Z. Ye; Z. Hong; X. Yu; M. Zhi
Journal Nanotechnology
DOI 10.1088/1361-6528/aab299
Abstract

This work introduces the anion exchange method into the sol-gel process for the first time to prepare a metal sulfide aerogel. A porous CoS aerogel with a high surface area (274.2 m g) and large pore volume (0.87 cm g) has been successfully prepared by exchanging cobalt citrate wet gel in thioacetamide and subsequently drying in supercritical ethanol. Such a CoS aerogel shows enhanced supercapacitive performance and catalytic activity toward oxygen evolution reaction (OER) compared to its oxide aerogel counterpart. High specific capacitance (950 F g at 1 A g), good rate capability (74.3% capacitance retention from 1 to 20 A g) and low onset overpotential for OER (220 mV) were observed. The results demonstrated here have implications in preparing various sulfide chalcogels.

Citation Q. Gao; Z. Shi; K. Xue; Z. Ye; Z. Hong; X. Yu; M. Zhi.Cobalt sulfide aerogel prepared by anion exchange method with enhanced pseudocapacitive and water oxidation performances.. Nanotechnology. 2018;29(21):215601. doi:10.1088/1361-6528/aab299

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