Nickel-Doped Ultrathin K-Birnessite Manganese Oxide Nanosheet As Pseudocapacitor Electrode with Excellent Cycling Stability for High-Power Pesudocapacitors

Abstract

We herein report a kind of nickel-doped ultrathin δ-MnO2 nanosheets prepared using a facile chemical bath deposition method. The obtained δ-MnO2 materials have 2D ultrathin nanosheet structures with a few atomic layers. Electrochemical measurements indicate that an appropriate amount of nickel doping can remarkably improve the specific capacitance of the δ-MnO2 and that 1.0 mol % nickel-doped δ-MnO2 nanosheets display the best specific capacitance of 337.9 F g–1 at 1 A g–1. The specific capacitance can maintain at 158 F g–1 even as the current density increases to 20 A g–1, demonstrating that the electrode material possesses good rate performance. In addition, the discharge capacity fading from 160.9 to 158.8 F g–1 is slight after 4000 cycles, and the corresponding capacitance retention is as high as 98.6%. The good rate capacity and stability of the δ-MnO2 nanosheets can be attributed to the ultrathin structure of a few atomic layers which provides large surface areas and lots of reactive active sites. M...