Ostensibly phosphatized NiAl LDHs nanoflowers with remarkable charge storage property for asymmetric supercapacitors

Improving conductivity of electron and ion was considered to be the significant tendency on pseudocapacitive materials. In this work, a flower-like P-NiAl LDHs electrode materials have been successfully fabricated by hydrothermal synthesis and subsequent phosphatized treatment. Owing to the presence of phosphide, the resulting P-NiAl LDHs electrode showed a high specific capacitance of 2159F g^-1 at 1 A g^-1 and a good capacitance retention of 85.6% at 20 A g^-1, which more excellent than NiAl LDHs electrode. Besides, the P-NiAl LDHs//AC asymmetric supercapacitor exhibited a high energy density of 79.3 Wh kg^-1 under a power density of 1033.6 W kg^-1 and an acceptable stability of 73.6% specific capacitance retention after 2400 charge-discharge cycles. Consequently, the P-NiAl LDHs nanoflower is one of the better candidates for assembling supercapacitor, and this phosphatized method is a kind of facile and desirable strategies to improve the electrochemical characteristics of LDH-based supercapacitor materials.