Abstract
This study reports on MoO3 nanobelts as electrode material for high-performance supercapacitors. We find MoO3 nanobelts electrode exhibits a higher specific capacitance than MoO3 microrods electrode. Thus, an asymmetric supercapacitor utilizing the as-prepared MoO3 nanobelts as the positive electrode material and the carbon nanosheets as the negative electrode material achieves an impressive performance with an energy density of 25.69 Wh kg−1 at a power density of 1482.25 W kg−1. We further reveal that the exposed (010) facets in the crystalline MoO3 nanobelts might mainly contribute to its electrochemical performance.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Miller J, Simon P (2008) Electrochemical capacitors for energy management. Science 321:651–652
Conway B (1991) Transition from “supercapacitor” to “battery” behavior in electrochemical energy storage. J Electrochem Soc 138:1539–1548
Wang G, Zhang L, Zhang J (2012) A review of electrode materials for electrochemical supercapacitors. Chem Soc Rev 41:797–828
Mai L, Yang F, Zhao Y et al (2011) Hierarchical MnMoO4/CoMoO4 heterostructured nanowires with enhanced supercapacitor performance. Nat Commun 2:381
Li S, Huang D, Yang J et al (2014) Freestanding bacterial cellulose–polypyrrole nanofibres paper electrodes for advanced energy storage devices. Nano Energy 9:309–317
Li S, Huang D, Zhang B et al (2014) Flexible supercapacitors based on bacterial cellulose paper electrodes. Adv Energy Mater 4:1301655
Lin T, Chen W, Liu F et al (2015) Nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon of extraordinary capacitance for electrochemical energy storage. Science 350:1508–1513
Wei W, Cui X, Chen W et al (2011) Manganese oxide-based materials as electrochemical supercapacitor electrodes. Chem Soc Rev 40:1697–1721
Yin B, Zhang S, Ren Q et al (2017) Elastic soft hydrogel supercapacitor for energy storage. J Mater Chem A 5:24942–24950
Zhang S, Yin B, Liu C et al (2018) A lightweight, compressible and portable sponge-based supercapacitor or future power supply. Chem Eng J 349:509–521
Snook G, Kao P, Best A (2011) Conducting-polymer-based supercapacitor devices and electrodes. J Power Sources 196:1–12
Zhang S, Yin B, Liu X et al (2019) A high energy density aqueous hybrid supercapacitor with widened potential window through multi approaches. Nano Energy 59:41–49
Xu C, Li Z, Yang C et al (2016) An ultralong, highly oriented nickel-nanowire-array electrode scaffold for high-performance compressible pseudocapacitors. Adv Mater 28:4105–4110
Hall P, Mirzaeian M, Fletcher S et al (2010) Energy storage in electrochemical capacitors: designing functional materials to improve performance. Energy Environ Sci 3:1238–1251
Yu Z, Tetard L, Zhai L et al (2015) Supercapacitor electrode materials: nanostructures from 0 to 3 dimensions. Environ Sci 8:702–730
Shao Y, El-Kady M, Sun J et al (2018) Design and mechanisms of asymmetric supercapacitors. Chem Rev 118:9233–9280
Xiao X, Peng Z, Chen C et al (2014) Freestanding MoO3-x nanobelt/carbon nanotube films for Li-ion intercalation pseudocapacitors. Nano Energy 9:355–363
Du P, Wei W, Liu D et al (2018) Fabrication of hierarchical MoO3-PPy core-shell nanobelts and “worm-like” MWNTs-MnO2 core-shell materials for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitor. J Mater Sci 53:5255–5269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-1927-3
Liu T, Pell W, Conway B (1997) Self-discharge and potential recovery phenomena at thermally and electrochemically prepared RuO2 supercapacitor electrodes. Electrochim Acta 42:3541–3552
Zhao X, Sánchez B, Dobson P et al (2011) The role of nanomaterials in redox-based supercapacitors for next generation energy storage devices. Nanoscale 3:839–855
Liang Y, Li H, Zhang X et al (2007) Solid state synthesis of hydrous ruthenium oxide for supercapacitors. J Power Sources 173:599–605
Tao T, Chen Q, Hu H et al (2012) MoO3 nanoparticles distributed uniformly in carbon matrix for supercapacitor applications. Mater Lett 66:102–105
Sánchez B, Brousse T, Castro C et al (2013) An investigation of nanostructured thin film α-MoO3 based supercapacitor electrodes in an aqueous electrolyte. Electrochim Acta 91:253–260
Smith R, Rohrer G (1996) Scanning probe microscopy of cleaved molybdates: α-MoO3(010), Mo18O52(100), Mo8O23(010), and h-Mo4O11(100). J Solid State Chem 124:104–115
Shakir I, Sarfraz M (2014) Evaluation of electrochemical charge storage mechanism and structural changes in intertwined MoO3-MWCNTs composites for supercapacitor applications. Electrochim Acta 147:380–384
Li J, Liu X (2013) Preparation and characterization of α-MoO3 nanobelt and its application in supercapacitor. Mater Lett 112:39–42
Hanlon D, Backes C, Higgins T et al (2014) Production of molybdenum trioxide nanosheets by liquid exfoliation and their application in high-performance supercapacitors. Chem Mater 26:1751–1763
Qu Q, Li L, Tian S et al (2010) A cheap asymmetric supercapacitor with high energy at high power: activated carbon//K0.27MnO2·0.6H2O. J Power Sources 195:2789–2794
Gao H, Xiao F, Ching C et al (2012) High-performance asymmetric supercapacitor based on graphene hydrogel and nanostructured MnO2. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 4:2801–2810
Wang T, Chen H, Yu F et al (2019) Boosting the cycling stability of transition metal compounds-based supercapacitors. Energy Storage Mater 16:545–573
Lunk H, Hartl H, Hartl M et al (2010) “Hexagonal molybdenum trioxide”- known for 100 years and still a fount of new discoveries. Inorg Chem 49:9400–9408
Shakir I, Shahid M, Rana U et al (2014) In situ hydrogenation of molybdenum oxide nanowires for enhanced supercapacitors. RSC Adv 4:8741–8745
Tang W, Liu L, Tian S et al (2011) Aqueous supercapacitors of high energy density based on MoO3 nanoplates as anode material. Chem Commun 47:10058–10060
Ahmed B, Shahid M, Nagaraju D et al (2015) Surface passivation of MoO3 nanorods by atomic layer deposition toward high rate durable Li ion battery anodes. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 7:13154–13163
Wang Z, Madhavi S, Lou X et al (2012) Ultralong α-MoO3 nanobelts: synthesis and effect of binder choice on their lithium storage properties. J Phys Chem C 116:12508–12513
Ji H, Liu X, Liu Z et al (2015) In situ preparation of sandwich MoO3/C hybrid nanostructures for high-rate and ultralong-life supercapacitors. Adv Funct Mater 25:1886–1894
Gao L, Li S, Huang D et al (2015) ZnO decorated TiO2 nanosheet composites for lithium ion battery. Electrochim Acta 182:529–536
Gao L, Huang D, Shen Y et al (2015) Rutile-TiO2 decorated Li4Ti5O12 nanosheet arrays with 3D interconnected architecture as anodes for high performance hybrid supercapacitors. J Mater Chem A 3:23570–23576
Gao L, Li S, Huang D et al (2015) Porous Li4Ti5O12–TiO2 nanosheet arrays for high performance lithium-ion batteries. J Mater Chem A 3:10107–10113
Zhou C, Zhang Y, Li Y et al (2013) Construction of high-capacitance 3D CoO@polypyrrole nanowire array electrode for aqueous asymmetric supercapacitor. Nano Lett 13:2078–2085
Gao L, Hu H, Li G et al (2014) Hierarchical 3D TiO2@Fe2O3 nanoframework arrays as high-performance anode materials. Nanoscale 6:6463–6467
Acknowledgements
This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (HUST: 2016YXMS031) and the Director Fund of the WNLO. We thank the facility support of the Analytical and Testing Centre at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the Center for Nanoscale Characterization and Devices of WNLO.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Additional information
Publisher's Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Electronic supplementary material
Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Wang, L., Gao, L., Wang, J. et al. MoO3 nanobelts for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitor. J Mater Sci 54, 13685–13693 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-03836-7
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-03836-7