Effect of growth duration of Zn0.76Co0.24S interconnected nanosheets for high-performance flexible energy storage electrode materials

作者：Abbas, Nadir; Shaheen, Irum; Ali, Ijaz; Ahmad, Muhammad; Khan, Shahid Ali; Qureshi, Anjum; Niazi, Javed H.; Imran, Muhammad; Lamiel, Charmaine; Ansari, Mohd Zahid^*; Hussain, Iftikhar^*

来源：Ceramics International, 2022, 48(23): 34251-34257.

DOI：10.1016/j.ceramint.2022.07.225

• Metal chalcogenides
• Electrodeposition
• Carbon cloth
• Flexible electrode
• Supercapacitor

The direct growth of metal chalcogenides on a conductive substrate is an emerging electrode fabrication tech-nique for high-performance supercapacitors (SCs). In this study, Zn0.76Co0.24S (ZCS) nanosheets were grown on carbon cloth using a direct and binder-free electrodeposition approach. The electrodeposition time was evaluated at 10 min (ZCS-10) and 15 min (ZCS-15). Both electrodes resulted in nanosheet-like morphology, with ZCS-10 consisting of compacted structures and ZCS-15 with finer structures present on the nanosheets. At 1 A g(-1), the ZCS-15 electrode exhibited an enhanced specific capacity (739 C g(-1)) compared to ZCS-10 (480 C g(-1)). The network of nanosheets for the ZCS-15 electrode retained a considerable capacity of 89% after 5000 continuous charge-discharge cycles. Hence, results indicated that the fabricated ZCS electrode revealed enhancement in electrochemical properties owing to its unique nanosheet-like structures from the prolonged electrodeposition time.

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