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N-doped carbon coating for stabilizing metal sulfides on carbon materials for high cycle life asymmetric supercapacitors

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Manufacturing hybrid electrodes with the combination of electroactive materials and carbon carriers brings hope for high-performance supercapacitors, but the poor interfacial compatibility between hydrophobic carbon substrate surface and active materials is still the bottleneck to be solved. Here, we propose a superhydrophilic strategy to stabilize NiCo2S4 on inert carbon cloth (CC) using nitrogen-doped (N-doped) carbon layer as structure/interface coupling bridge, so as to prepare hybrid material (expressed as NiCo2S4/CC-CN) for supercapacitor. The N-doped carbon layer on CC leads to the formation of superhydrophilic surface/interface, which is conducive to the uniform growth of NiCo2S4 on CC and helps to effectively strong coupling interaction between CC and NiCo2S4. In addition, the asymmetric supercapacitor made of NiCo2S4/CC-CN as the positive electrode and as-prepared activated carbon cloth (PACC) as the negative electrode provides a high energy density of 0.11 mWh cm−2 at a power density of 0.35 mW cm−2. The interfacial engineering in this study holds the potential of creating high energy density electrodes for advanced energy storage.

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The authors abide by ethical standards and are funded by the project fund (listed in Acknowledgments). The authors demonstrate that there is no conflict of interest between their current work and any individual/organization. All authors agreed to submit to the original article in “Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics.” The authors claim that none of the materials in this manuscript have been published or are under consideration for publication elsewhere. All data generated and analyzed during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary material. The data that support the finding of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number 21571084), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant Number BK20181349), the National First-Class Discipline Program of Light Industry Technology and Engineering (Grant Number LIFE2018-19), and the MOE & SAFEA for the 111 Project (Grant Number B13025).

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Dong, K., Yang, Z., Shi, D. et al. N-doped carbon coating for stabilizing metal sulfides on carbon materials for high cycle life asymmetric supercapacitors. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 10928–10938 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08072-5

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