While all reports on supercapacitors are based on electrodes that are fabricated either using expensive, complex fabrication techniques or multiple steps based synthesis routes, the current work is the first report of one-step hydrothermally grown MoS on pencil graphite electrode (PGE) for ultra-high performance supercapacitor application. Field emission scanning electron microscope images revealed MoS micro-flower like structure containing interwoven nanosheets whereas chemical characterizations data confirmed the successful growth of few layered (>4 layers) MoS on PGE. The performance of the electrode was optimized using various grades of pencil, and it was found that the areal capacitance of the MoS grown on 1H PGE(7178.8 mF cm) was about 3.4 and 4.1 folds greater than those of the MoS grown on 2B, 6H PGE at the same current density respectively. This low cost, binder-free MoS based PGE paves a novel way towards the advancement of affordable electrodes for energy storage-conversion and bioanalytical applications.
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Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5636, United States.
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Institute of Advanced Materials and Systems, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul 04310, Republic of Korea.
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States.
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College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China.
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Key Laboratory of Multiscale Spin Physics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, P. R. China.
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