A supercapacitor electrode is fabricated with Co0.85Se hollow nanowires (HNW) array, which is synthesized by wet chemical hydrothermal selenization of initially grown cobalt hydroxyl carbonate nanowires on conductive CFP. The dense self-organized morphology of Co0.85Se HNWs is revealed by scanning/transmission electron microscopy. The as-synthesized Co0.85Se HNWs possess high pseudocapacitive property with high capacitance retention and high durability. The areal capacitance value is seen to vary from 929.5 to 600 mF cm(-2) (60% retention) as the current density is increased from 1 to 15 mA cm(-2), an increase of a factor of 15. Based on mass loading, this corresponds to a very high gravimetric capacitance of 674 (for 2 mA cm(-2) or 1.48 Ag(-1)) and 444 Fg(1-) (for 15 mA cm(-2) or 11 A g(-1)) in a full-cell configuration with the Co0.85Se HNWs as cathode and activated carbon as anode (asymmetric configuration) promising results are obtained.

Thumbs up for porous graphene! Single‐layer‐graphene‐assembled 3D hexaporous carbon is prepared by catalyst‐free pyrolysis of poly(4‐styrenesulfonic acid‐co‐maleic acid) sodium salt. The material has a hierarchical structure of mesoporous as well as microporous graphene with hexagonal nanopores of uniform size and shape. The results show that the sample is highly conducting in aqueous electrolyte, with an extremely high surface area of 1720 m2 g−1 and an enhanced capacitance of 154 F g−1.

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