“…1 Nickel based materials have been identied as promising electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage devices because of their high theoretical specic capacitance ($2584 F g À1 for NiO and 2082 F g À1 for Ni(OH) 2 ), environmental friendliness and low cost. 2,3 With the aim to provide a larger reaction area and shorten ion diffusion paths, many fabrication methods including chemical precipitation, 4,5 hydrothermal synthesis, [6][7][8][9][10][11] sol-gel, 12,13 thermal oxidation [14][15][16] and anodization 17,18 have been used to produce various kinds of nickel-based nanostructures, such as amorphous Ni(OH) 2 nanoboxes, 5 Ni-Co oxide nanowires, 6,19 Ni(OH) 2 nanosheets, 7,11 NiO nanobelts, 8 nanosized rambutan-like NiO, 9 urchin-like NiCo 2 O 4 , 10 spinel nickel cobaltite aerogels, 12 NiO nanoowers, 13 NiO nanoblocks 14 and sponge-like Ni(OH) 2 -NiF 2 composites. 18 Apart from the above methods, electrodeposition has gained more and more attention because the electroactive material can be directly grown on a current collector without the need for using any binder or conducting agent.…”