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In situ growth of bimetallic nickel cobalt sulfide (NiCo2S4) nanowire arrays encapsulated by nitrogen-doped carbon on carbon cloth as binder-free and flexible electrode for high-performance aqueous Zn batteries

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Recently, aqueous nickel-zinc (Ni-Zn) batteries have abundant application potential due to its large-scale energy storage systems. However, traditional cathode materials still have the disadvantage of having much lower specific capacity than their theoretical capacity and poor cycle performance. The development of bond-free flexible cathode electrodes for high-performance aqueous Zn batteries remains a tremendous challenge. Herein, a simple method was reported to in situ grow NiCo2S4 acicular nanowire arrays encapsulated by nitrogen-doped carbon on carbon cloth (denoted as CC@NC-NiCo2S4) as binder-free and flexible electrode for high-performance aqueous Zn batteries. When CC@NC-NiCo2S4 was used as a stand-alone cathode material, the prepared aqueous CC@NC-NiCo2S4//Zn battery exhibits excellent rate capability (0.58 mAh cm−2 at 2 mA cm−2 and 0.46 mAh cm−2 at 20 mA cm−2) and superior cycling performance (80% capacity retention at 4.65 A g−1 after 1000 cycles, based on the NiCo2S4 active material). More importantly, a quasi-solid-state CC@NC-NiCo2S4/Zn cell has also been fabricated and exhibits an outstanding energy density of 238 Wh kg−1 at a power density of 1.27 kW kg−1 and 89% capacitance retention for 500 cycles with 5 mA cm−2. Those results showed that it is much higher than that of other reported (Ni-Zn) batteries, indicating its excellent potential practical applications for high-performance aqueous Zn batteries.

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Novel electrode functionalized with NiCo2S4 nanowire arrays encapsulated by carbon was synthesized and exhibits excellent performance for aqueous Zn batteries.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Industry-University Cooperation of Fujian Province (Grant No. 2020H6019), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (Grant No. 2022J01942), the National Innovation Demonstration Zones and Collaborative Innovation Platform Project for Fuzhou-**amen-Quanzhou (Grant No. 2021FX05), the opening foundation of Key Laboratory of Fujian Provincial Engineering Research Center of Die & Mold (Fujian University of Technology) (Grant No. KF-C21006), and the Program for Innovative Research Team in Science and Technology in Fujian Province University (IRTSTFJ).

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    Zhixiang Cui, Jixiang Zhou, Qianting Wang & Junhui Si

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    Zhixiang Cui, Jixiang Zhou, Qianting Wang & Junhui Si

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    Zhixiang Cui, Jixiang Zhou, Qianting Wang & Junhui Si

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Cui, Z., Zhou, J., Wang, X. et al. In situ growth of bimetallic nickel cobalt sulfide (NiCo2S4) nanowire arrays encapsulated by nitrogen-doped carbon on carbon cloth as binder-free and flexible electrode for high-performance aqueous Zn batteries. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 6, 95 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-023-00668-7

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