Operando Tailoring of Defects and Strains in Corrugated β-Ni(OH)<sub>2</sub> Nanosheets for Stable and High-Rate Energy Storage.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Nickel hydroxide represents a technologically important material for energy storage, such as hybrid supercapacitors. It has two different crystallographic polymorphs, α- and β-Ni(OH)<sub>2</sub> , showing advantages in either theoretical capacity or cycling/rate performance, manifesting a trade-off trend that needs to be optimized for practical applications. Here, the synergistic superiorities in both activity and stability of corrugated β-Ni(OH)<sub>2</sub> nanosheets are demonstrated through an electrochemical abuse approach. With ≈91% capacity retention after 10 000 cycles, the corrugated β-Ni(OH)<sub>2</sub> nanosheets can deliver a gravimetric capacity of 457 C g<sup>-1</sup> at a high current density of 30 A g<sup>-1</sup> , which is nearly two and four times that of the regular α- and β-Ni(OH)<sub>2</sub> , respectively. Operando spectroscopy and finite element analysis reveal that greatly enhanced chemical activity and structural robustness can be attributed to the in situ tailored lattice defects and the strain-induced highly curved micromorphology. This work demonstrates a multi-scale defect-and-strain co-design strategy, which is helpful for rational design and tuned fabrication of next-generation electrode materials for stable and high-rate energy storage.