“…Transition metal hydroxides (TMHs) and derivatives have attracted much attention as electrode materials for application in electrocatalysis ( Gong et al, 2013 ; Fan et al, 2014 ; Han et al, 2016 ; Sun et al, 2018 ; Liu et al, 2019 ; Zhang et al, 2021a ; Zhang et al, 2021b ), electrochemical analysis ( Tan et al, 2017 ), and especially electrochemical energy storage ( Chen et al, 2014 ; Zuo et al, 2016 ; Yao et al, 2018 ; Jiang et al, 2019 ; Zhang et al, 2019 , 2019 ; Wang et al, 2020 ; Yin et al, 2020 , 2020 ; Gürbüz et al, 2021 ; Jiang et al, 2021 ; Song et al, 2021b ; Song et al, 2021a ; Zhang et al, 2021a ). As a critical member of TMHs, nickel hydroxides show great potential for high-performance electrode with much lower cost than novel metal-based materials.…”