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Electrospun carbon nanofiberic coated with ambutan-like NiCo2O4 microspheres as electrode materials

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The novel Three-dimensional rambutan-like NiCo2O4 microspheres have been successfully coated onto surface of carbon nanofibers (CNFs) to form NiCo2O4–CNFs hybrids. The composition and microstructure of NiCo2O4–CNFs were characterized by the field-emission scanning elec-tronmicroscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and x-ray diffractometer. The obtained NiCo2O4–CNFs exhibited a specific capacity of 160 mAh/g at 1 mA/cm2 in 2 M potassium hydroxide aqueous solution. The specific capacity gradually increases with the increasing of cycles; and after 3000 cycles, the specific capacity still can be remained over 90%.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 51373155), Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Textile Technology of Zhejiang Province (2011-Program) (Grant no. 20160202) and “521 Talents Training Plan” in Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (ZSTU).

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  1. Department of Polymer Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, People’s Republic of China

    Hua Chen, Guohua Jiang, Weijiang Yu, Depeng Liu, Yongkun Liu, Lei Li & Qin Huang

  2. National Engineering Laboratory for Textile Fiber Materials and Processing Technology (Zhejiang), Hangzhou, 310018, People’s Republic of China

    Guohua Jiang

  3. Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology (ATMT), Ministry of Education, Hangzhou, 310018, People’s Republic of China

    Guohua Jiang

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Chen, H., Jiang, G., Yu, W. et al. Electrospun carbon nanofiberic coated with ambutan-like NiCo2O4 microspheres as electrode materials. MRS Communications 7, 90–96 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2017.11

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