Issue 45, 2018

Oxygen vacancy enriched hollow cobaltosic oxide frames with ultrathin walls for efficient energy storage and biosensing

Abstract

Transition metal oxides (TMOs) with desired morphologies and atomic structures have promising applications in energy storage, catalysis, and biosensing because of their large specific surface area, high theoretical capacitance, abundant active sites, etc. In this study, hierarchical Co3O4 with enriched oxygen vacancies and finely tuned nanostructures, e.g. high porosity, thin wall thickness, hollow or yolk–shell structure, is prepared by dynamically balancing the decomposition and oxidation of the zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) precursor directly calcined in air at 300 °C. The optimized Co3O4 hollow frame inherits the original shape of the parent ZIF-67 with a high volume retention of 83% and features an ultrathin wall thickness of 10 nm, a large accessible surface area of 63.7 m2 g−1 and a high content of surface oxygen vacancies. It thus delivers an excellent specific capacitance of 770 F g−1 at 1 A g−1, a rate capability of 570.9 F g−1 at 20 A g−1 and excellent cycling stability for energy storage, and a high sensitivity of 0.7 mA mM−1 cm−2, a low detection limit of 0.2 μM (S/N = 3), and a wide linear detectable range of 0.005–1.175 mM for electrochemical non-enzymatic detection of glucose.

Graphical abstract: Oxygen vacancy enriched hollow cobaltosic oxide frames with ultrathin walls for efficient energy storage and biosensing

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Sep 2018
Accepted
28 Oct 2018
First published
29 Oct 2018

Nanoscale, 2018,10, 21006-21012

Oxygen vacancy enriched hollow cobaltosic oxide frames with ultrathin walls for efficient energy storage and biosensing

L. Hua, Z. Hui, Y. Sun, X. Zhao, H. Xu, Y. Gong, R. Chen, C. Yu, J. Zhou, G. Sun and W. Huang, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 21006 DOI: 10.1039/C8NR07444E

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