Controllable synthesis of hierarchical CuCo2O4@PEDOT/Mo3C2 nanocomposites as high-performance electrodes for symmetric supercapacitors
摘要
Here, hierarchical CuCo2O4@PEDOT/Mo3C2 composites were fabricated on carbon cloth (CC) via a two-step synthesis strategy. The designed architecture ingeniously integrates the abundant electrochemically active sites of Cu-Co bimetallic nanoparticles with the excellent electrical conductivity of PEDOT and Mo3C2, thereby realizing a synergistic enhancement in electrochemical performance. The CuCo2O4@PEDOT/Mo3C2 electrode exhibits an outstanding specific capacitance (3702 mF cm−2) and maintains a high capacitance retention (94.1%) after 10,000 charge–discharge cycles. Moreover, a flexible symmetric supercapacitor assembled with CuCo2O4@PEDOT/ Mo3C2-III electrodes delivers a high energy density of 3.6 mWh cm−3 at a power density of 14.5 mW cm−3. These results confirm that the combination of controlled synthesis methods with rational material design is an effective strategy of developing high-performance hybrid energy storage systems. The CuCo2O4@PEDOT/Mo3C2 architecture shows significant potential for advanced energy storage applications and efficient strategy to engineering high-performance composite electrode materials.