Electrochemical performance of sphere-like copper oxide structures on stainless-steel mesh substrate
摘要
The copper oxide (CuO) structures were directly prepared on a flexible stainless-steel (SS) mesh substrate via a simple one-step process with an aqueous solution of copper acetate monohydrate and hexamethylenetetramine (HMT) at a growth temperature of 60 °C. The three-dimensional (3D) sphere-like structures composed of one-dimensional (1D) sub-level rod-like nanostructures fully covered the SS mesh surface with addition of HMT, which led to enhanced electrochemical performance. Areal specific capacitance of ~ 47.1 and ~ 36.3 mF/cm2 were obtained at a cyclic voltammetry (CV) scan rates of 2 and 100 mV/s, respectively, demonstrating a high rate capability of ~ 77%. Further, it exhibited a good cycling capacitance retention of ~ 91% after 1000 cycles at a scan rate of 50 mV/s. Hence, using a cost-effective wet chemical method at a relatively low growth temperature, entirely binder-free the sphere-like CuO structures on SS mesh substrate could serve as an electrode for energy storage devices.
Graphical abstract