Calcination process of porous metal-organic frameworks derived from nickel sulfide composites for supercapacitor and computer vision for investigating the porosity-electrochemical correlation

Abstract

The utilization of metal-organic framework nanostructured electrode materials in supercapacitors and sensor applications is achieved by various chemical methods. In this study, we create NiS and NiS@MOF-BDC by employing nickel precursors and benzene dicarboxylic acid (BDC) as chelating organic linkers through a thermal reduction procedure at a temperature of 400 degrees C to produce the composite. The composite heterostructure enhanced the conductivity, porous characteristics, and diverse potential morphological qualities. The production of composite electrodes demonstrates a specific capacity of 260F/g (104C/g) when subjected to a current density of 1A/g. Additionally, these electrodes exhibit exceptional cyclic stability, enduring 5000 cycles, when used with a 2 M KOH electrolyte. Moreover, the synthesized composite HR-TEM images were analyzed using computer vision and AI techniques for estimating the porosity and investigating the enhanced electrochemical correlation.