Ultra-long cycle life and binder-free manganese-cobalt oxide supercapacitor electrodes through photonic nanostructuring.

We report a novel photonic processing technique as a next-generation cost-effective technique to instantaneously synthesize nanostructured manganese-cobalt mixed oxide reduced graphitic oxide (Mn-Co-rGO) for supercapacitor electrodes in energy storage applications. The active material was prepared directly on highly conductive Pt-Si substrate, eliminating the need for a binder. Surface morphological analysis showed that the as-prepared electrodes have a highly porous and resilient nanostructure that facilitates the ion/electron movement during faradaic redox reactions and buffers the volume changes during charge-discharge processes, leading to the improved structural integrity of the electrode.