A unique sandwich structure of Ni 3 S 2 /RGO/Ni 3 S 2 consisting of Ni 3 S 2 nanosheets was designed and constructed on nickel foam (NF) by a one-step hydrothermal process.The lower Ni 3 S 2 layer was converted in-situ from the Ni foam substrate, while the upper Ni 3 S 2 layer with vertical nanosheets was resulted from Ni 2+ ions in the solution.This Ni 3 S 2 /RGO/Ni 3 S 2 /NF nanocomposite was directly utilized as supercapacitor electrode, which possesses a high areal mass loading of 5.2 mg cm -2 , and superior performance: a specific capacitance of up to 16.82 F cm −2 (i.e., 3234.62 F g −1 ) at a current density of 20 mA cm -2 (3.85 A g -1 ) and retention 90% of initial capacitance after 1,000 cycles at the high rate of 100 mA cm -2 (19.23 A g -1 ). crystal increase and thus the thickness increase. For comparison, when the temperature increases to 240°C, the nucleation number increase, and the Ni 3 S 2 nanoflakes primarily grow in longitudinal height rather than in thickness, as shown in shown in Fig.4a-4c. A high magnification SEM image of Fig. 4c is shown in Fig.4e, and an array structure consisting of of highly porous Ni 3 S 2 sheets is vertically packed on the top side of the RGO, which is transformed from the nickel ion in the solution, forming the upper Ni 3 S 2 layer. On the other hand, the RNS-210 composite (Fig. 4f) displays relatively loose and random nanosheets of Ni 3 S 2 that result from the surface nickel source of NF, which can be considered as the same structure of the lower layer of Ni 3 S 2 nanosheets in the NRNS-210 composite.an auxiliary oxidant for Ni. Furthermore, this in-situ redox reaction can be developed to build RGO/metal oxides composite on the active metal substrate Fig. 8 The performance of the NRNS-210 composite films as electrode materials in supercapacitors was evaluated using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and
Electrochemical performances of NRNS compositeschronopotentiometry. Fig. 8a shows the CV curves of the NRNS-210 electrode in a 2