With the trigonal linker 4,4′,4″-s-triazine-2,4,6-triyltribenzoic acid as a building block,
porous
cobalt metal–organic frameworks (named as PCN) have been successfully
prepared and directly utilized as active materials in alkaline battery-type
devices. For comparison, their carbon-supported hybrids (CNFs/PCN)
have also been employed as battery-type electrodes. We found that
the pristine PCN displayed a better performance than the CNFs/PCN
composite electrode in electrochemical cells. To further investigate
their electrochemical performances, alkaline battery–supercapacitor
hybrid (BSH) devices with these materials as positive electrodes and
activated carbon (AC) as the negative electrode were fabricated. The
results indicate that the PCN//AC BSH devices delivered a maximum
energy density of 16.0 Wh kg–1 at a power density
of 749 W kg–1 within the voltage range of 0–1.5
V, which are much higher than those of CNFs/PCN//AC devices (12.4
Wh kg–1 at 753 W kg–1).
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