In recent times, demand for portable electronic devices like mobile phones, cameras and laptops etc. is increasing day by day. Energy storage devices such as batteries and supercapacitors have significant importance because of their high energy density and high power density, respectively.¹ Supercapacitor is gaining great amount of attention because it uses less toxic material, offers high power density, excellent electrochemical stability, wide range of operating temperatures and durability. A facile fabrication of low cost, efficient, stable, eco-friendly and earth-abundant electrode materials for supercapacitors is critical.² Layered double hydroxide (LDH) is new class of material having positively charged hydrotalcite-like layers, weakly bound, intercalating charge compensating anions and water molecules, has showed enormous supercapacitive performance.³ In this work, an ionic lamellar, two-dimensional (2D) nickel-vanadium layered double hydroxide (NiV LDH) nanosheets have been synthesized via facile, cost effective and potentially scalable hydrothermal method. The as-prepared 2D NiV LDH nanosheets coated on Ni foam (NF/NiV LDH) was used as supercapacitor electrode. The electrochemical characterization techniques such as cyclic voltammetry (CV), galvanostatic charge-discharge (GCD) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) were used to characterize the material for its electrochemical properties, while SEM, TEM, XRD, BET, and XPS etc. techniques have been used for their morphological, structural and physical characterization. High specific capacitance of ~1581 F g^-1 at the current density of 1 A g^-1 was observed in three-electrode system using KOH as electrolyte, which remained quite high at increased current density of 10 A g^-1. This work demonstrates great potential for NiV LDH nanosheets as electrode material for supercapacitor applications.

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[2] A. Tyagi, R. K. Gupta, Nanomaterials: A guide to fabrication and applications, (CRC Press), 261 (2015).

[3] K. Fan, H. Chen, Y. Ji, H. Huang, P. M. Claesson, Q. Daniel, B. Philippe, H. Rensmo, F. Li, Y. Luo, and L. Sun, Nat. commun. 7 (2016) 11981.