Scalable one-pot bacteria-templating synthesis route toward hierarchical, porous-Co3O4 superstructures for supercapacitor electrodes

Sci Rep. 2013:3:2325. doi: 10.1038/srep02325.

Abstract

Template-driven strategy has been widely used to synthesize inorganic nano/micro materials. Here, we used a bottom-up controlled synthesis route to develop a powerful solution-based method of fabricating three-dimensional (3D), hierarchical, porous-Co3O4 superstructures that exhibit the morphology of flower-like microspheres (hereafter, RT-Co3O4). The gram-scale RT-Co3O4 was facilely prepared using one-pot synthesis with bacterial templating at room temperature. Large-surface-area RT-Co3O4 also has a noticeable pseudocapacitive performance because of its high mass loading per area (~10 mg cm(-2)), indicating a high capacitance of 214 F g(-1) (2.04 F cm(-2)) at 2 A g(-1) (19.02 mA cm(-2)), a Coulombic efficiency averaging over 95%, and an excellent cycling stability that shows a capacitance retention of about 95% after 4,000 cycles.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cobalt / chemistry*
  • Electric Capacitance*
  • Electrodes*
  • Electronics / instrumentation
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Materials Testing
  • Metal Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Metal Nanoparticles / ultrastructure
  • Micrococcus / chemistry*
  • Micrococcus / ultrastructure
  • Molecular Imprinting / methods*
  • Oxides / chemistry*
  • Porosity

Substances

  • Oxides
  • Cobalt
  • cobalt oxide