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However, conventional carbon materials often require complex preparation methods and pre-activation steps for use in MOF composites. Herein, multilayer graphene (MLG) mechanically exfoliated from expandable graphite is employed as a substrate, and a van der Waals force-assisted chemical deposition method is developed to directly anchor Ni-MOF onto its surface without requiring pre-activation treatment. To optimize the composite, Ni-MOFs with various mass loadings are synthesized on MLG surface. The morphological characteristics and energy storage performance of these composites are thoroughly characterized. Ni-MOF\/MLG-0.30 (with a 70.8% Ni-MOF loading on MLG) features a porous stacking structure of well-crystalline Ni-MOF parallelogram nanosheets on MLG, exhibiting optimal electrochemical performance. The composite achieves 1071.4 F\u00b7g\u22121 at 1 A\u00b7g\u22121, and a capacitance retention of 64.9% at the elevated current density of 10 A\u00b7g\u22121. Meanwhile, the composite maintains 63.2% of its initial capacitance after 5000 charge\/discharge cycles at 4 A\u00b7g\u22121. A hybrid supercapacitor is fabricated using Ni-MOF\/MLG-0.30 cathode and activated carbon anode, delivering 27.9 Wh\u00b7kg\u22121 energy density at 102.5 W\u00b7kg\u22121 power output.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nano15090643","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,23]],"date-time":"2025-04-23T12:04:33Z","timestamp":1745409873000},"page":"643","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Mechanically Exfoliated Multilayer Graphene-Supported Ni-MOF Parallelogram Nanosheets for Enhanced Supercapacitor Performance"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Zhiheng","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junming","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinqi","family":"Ding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haoran","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jianfeng","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science & Technology, Zhejiang Shuren University, Hangzhou 310015, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"96","DOI":"10.1007\/s11664-022-09987-9","article-title":"Advances in Supercapacitor Development: Materials, Processes, and Applications","volume":"52","author":"Oyedotun","year":"2023","journal-title":"J. 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