Abstract:
Graphene was grown on foam nickel to obtain Ni foam@ graphene hydrogel(NF@GH) by hydrothermal method, and then using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide(CTAB) as guiding agent, NF@GH@NiCoLDH was obtained by hydrothermal treatment at 120 ℃. The effect of graphene hydrogel on the electrochemical properties of the NF@GH@NiCoLDH composite was also investigated. The specific capacitance of NF@GH@NiCoLDH could reach 3658 mF cm
-2 at 1 mA cm
-2, and the retention rate of the specific capacitance is 67.5% at 15 mA cm
-2, which is higher than that of NF@NiCoLDH(58%). And 62% of the capacitance is retained after 10000 cycles at 15 mA cm
-2, showing good cycle stability and rate performance. The asymmetric supercapacitor device was assembled with NF@GH@NiCoLDH as the positive electrode, which has a specific capacitance of 909 mF cm
-2 at 1 mA cm
-2, and the maximum energy density of the device is 0.25 mWh cm
-2, when the power density is 0.7 mW cm
-2.