Transition-metal compounds are considered as a promising
class
of electrode materials due to their unique features, combining with
good electrical conductivity, enhanced ion-diffusion rate, abundant
active sites for redox reaction, available multiple oxidation states,
high electrochemical activity, and low activation energy for electron
transfer among metal centers. Compared with monometallic and bimetallic
compounds, the construction of trimetallic compounds can further boost
the electrochemical performance. Here, a biomass-assisted
approach is presented to construct CoFe2O4–Cu5FeS4–CoS2 trimetallic composites
loaded on porous carbon via a cross-linking process followed by high-temperature
sulfidation. Due to the formation of interconnected ion-diffusion
channels, rich redox reaction sites, and synergistic effect among
trimetallic composites, the optimized sample exhibits impressive electrochemical
performance with a specific capacitance of 3899.7 F g–1 at 0.5 A g–1, which is obviously superior to the
corresponding bimetallic composite-based electrodes. Furthermore,
the assembled CoFe2O4–Cu5FeS4–CoS2@PC-700//PC-700 asymmetric supercapacitor
maintains an excellent cycling stability of 92.23% after 10,000 cycles.
The device reveals an energy density of up to 80.5 W h kg–1 at a rate of 0.45 kW kg–1. This work provides
an idea for the preparation of pseudocapacitive electrode materials
with high-energy storage capacity.