A facile, low-cost and scalable route has been developed to design and fabricate 3D hierarchical Ni foam/N-CNTs/CoxNi1-x-LDHs NSs electrodes.
The Ni foam/N-CNTs/Co0.5Ni0.5-LDHs NSs electrode possesses the maximum specific capacitance of 2170 F g−1 (1 A g−1) and areal capacitance of 1.62 F cm−2 (1 mA cm−2).
First-principles calculations further reveal that the Co doping can effectively reduce the band gap of Ni(OH)2 and increase the conductivity.