A Porous Perchlorate-Doped Polypyrrole Nanocoating on Nickel Nanotube Arrays for Stable Wide-Potential-Window Supercapacitors

Gao-Feng Chen; Xian-Xia Li; Li-Yi Zhang; Nan Li; Tian Yi Ma; Zhao-Qing Liu

doi:10.1002/adma.201601781

A Porous Perchlorate-Doped Polypyrrole Nanocoating on Nickel Nanotube Arrays for Stable Wide-Potential-Window Supercapacitors

Adv Mater. 2016 Sep;28(35):7680-7. doi: 10.1002/adma.201601781. Epub 2016 Jul 4.

Authors

Gao-Feng Chen¹, Xian-Xia Li¹, Li-Yi Zhang¹, Nan Li¹, Tian Yi Ma², Zhao-Qing Liu³

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Environmentally Functional Materials and Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Waihuan Xi Road No. 230, Guangzhou, 510006, P. R. China.
² School of Chemical Engineering, the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia. tian-yi.ma@adelaide.edu.au.
³ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Environmentally Functional Materials and Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Waihuan Xi Road No. 230, Guangzhou, 510006, P. R. China. lzqgzu@gzhu.edu.cn.

PMID: 27374972
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201601781

Abstract

A bottom-up synthetic strategy is developed to fabricate a highly porous wave-superposed perchlorate-doped polypyrrole nanocoating on nickel nanotube arrays. The delicate nanostructure and the unique surface chemistry synergistically endow the obtained electrode with revealable pseudocapacitance, large operating potential window, and excellent cycling stability, which are highly promising for both asymmetric and symmetric supercapacitors.

Keywords: doped polypyrrole; nanotube arrays; porous materials; supercapacitors.