Synthesis of nanosheet crystallites of ruthenate with an alpha-NaFeO2-related structure and its electrochemical supercapacitor property.

Unilamellar crystallites of conductive ruthenium oxide having a thickness of about 1 nm were obtained via elemental exfoliation of a protonic layered ruthenate, H(0.2)RuO(2).0.5H(2)O, with an alpha-NaFeO(2)-related crystal structure. The obtained RuO(2) nanosheets possessed a well-defined crystalline structure with a hexagonal symmetry, reflecting the crystal structure of the parent material. The restacked RuO(2) nanosheets exhibited a high pseudocapacitance of approximately 700 F g(-1) in an acidic electrolyte, which is almost double the value of the nonexfoliated layered protonated ruthenate.