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Capacitance performance of NiO thin films synthesized by direct and pulse potentiostatic methods

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Transition metal oxides have applications into energy storage devices such as electrochemical supercapacitors. We deposited nickel oxide (NiO) thin films using electrodeposition under direct and pulse potentiometry. The effects of the pulse electrodeposition conditions are systematically investigated. The results show that the pulse time influences clearly the morphology of thin films deposited. The nanostructure thin film that has been deposited under 1-s on-time condition was proven to be a suitable electrode material since its 1000 Fg−1 at 0.5 Ag−1 specific capacitance is large enough to fulfill the needed requirement. In addition, the thin film at hand has shown 90.1% capacity retention during 800 galvanostatic charge–discharge cycles under 5 Ag−1 current density. Moreover, nanostructured NiO films prepared with pulse electrodeposition method demonstrate high power performance, excellent rate as well as long-term cycling stability, which make them promising electrode materials for supercapacitor applications.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Electrochimie et Matériaux (LEM), Faculté de Technologie, Département de Génie des Procédés, Université Ferhat Abbas Sétif 1, 19000, Setif, Algeria

    Yasser Ghalmi, Farid Habelhames, Abdelfetteh Sayah, Ahmed Bahloul & Belkacem Nessark

  2. Département de Génie de l’Environnement, Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie, Université Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi, 34000, Bordj Bou Arréridj, Algeria

    Ahmed Bahloul

  3. Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada

    Manal Shalabi & Jean Michel Nunzi

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Ghalmi, Y., Habelhames, F., Sayah, A. et al. Capacitance performance of NiO thin films synthesized by direct and pulse potentiostatic methods. Ionics 25, 6025–6033 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-019-03159-2

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