Curvature method was used to measure the residual stress and substrate straining tensile test was carried out to study the debonding behavior of TiO2 nanotube film. The results indicate that the internal residual stress is -54 MPa. The strains of debonding initiation of TiO2 nanotube films without annealing, with 250 °C annealing and with 400 °C annealing are 2.6%, 5.1% and 8.6%, respectively, and the average radii of the debonding patches with debonding initiation are 27.5, 17.1 and 19.4 μm, respectively. The true critical debonding stresses of TiO2 nanotube films without annealing, with 250 °C annealing and with 400 °C annealing can be estimated as 220.4, 394.5 and 627.9 MPa, respectively. Interfacial shear lag model is modified and polynomial fitting equation of the interfacial shear strength of TiO2 nanotube film is demonstrated under debonding conditions. The modification and polynomial fitting are reliable since good agreement of the interfacial shear strengths after fitting is obtained compared with those results from the crack density analysis.
Faraday pseudocapacitors take both advantages of secondary battery with high energy density and supercapacitors with high power density,and electrode material is the key to determine the performance of Faraday pseudocapacitors.Transition metal oxides and nitrides,as the two main kinds of pseudocapacitor electrode materials,can enhance energy density while maintaining high power capability.Recent advances in designing nanostructured architectures and preparing composites with high specific surface areas based on transition metal oxides and nitrides,including ruthenium oxides,nickel oxides,manganese oxides,vanadium oxides,cobalt oxides,iridium oxides,titanium nitrides,vanadium nitrides,molybdenum nitrides and niobium nitrides,are addressed,which would provide important significances for deep researches on pseudocapacitor electrode materials.
Nickel oxide(NiO)hollow microspheres with hierarchical structure were fabricated through a process consisting of a self-assembling,hydrothermal reaction and calcination.The prepared NiO hollow microspheres composed of many nanoflakes,are about 2-3μm in diameter.The length of the NiO flakes,having clear edges,is about 500-700 nm,while the thickness is only about 40-50 nm.This indicates that the NiO microspheres possess a hierarchical structure that can provide porous channels to facilitate the transmission of both electrons and electrolyte ions.NiO microspheres exhibit a high specific capacitance of about 1340 F/g at a current density of 1 A/g and high capacitance retention about 96.5%after 1000 cycles.What’s more,the conductive mechanism of nickel oxide for electrochemical capacitor electrodes was also studied.
